Critique and Power: Recasting the Foucault/Habermas Debate

by Michael Kelly

Book Overview

The book juxtaposes key texts from Foucault and Habermas; it then adds a set of reactions and commentaries by theorists who have taken up the two alternative approaches to power and critique. The result is a guide for those seeking to understand and build on an unfinished debate between two of the 20th century's most important philosophers.

Which paradigm of critique--Foucault's or Habermas's--is philosophically and practically superior,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262610930
• ISBN13: 9780262610933
• Release Date: June 1994
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher