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Flyvbjerg, Bent: "Ideal Theory, Real Rationality: Habermas Versus Foucault and Nietzsche"
The paper presents Jürgen Habermas as an example of a political philosopher who fails to recognize that actual political and administrative rationality largely disrupts the relevance of his ideal prescriptions. Michel Foucault is proposed as an antidote to Habermas in a comparative study of the two. Machiavellian verita effettuale (effective truth) and Nietzschean wirkliche Historie (real history) are seen as more effective means to understand and limit rationalization and power than Habermasian Diskursetik (discourse ethics).
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Flyvbjerg, Bent: "Ideal Theory, Real Rationality: Habermas Versus Foucault and Nietzsche"
The paper presents Jürgen Habermas as an example of a political philosopher who fails to recognize that actual political and administrative rationality largely disrupts the relevance of his ideal prescriptions. Michel Foucault is proposed as an antidote to Habermas in a comparative study of the two. Machiavellian verita effettuale (effective truth) and Nietzschean wirkliche Historie (real history) are seen as more effective means to understand and limit rationalization and power than Habermasian Diskursetik (discourse ethics).
FullText.PDF -> By Bent Flyvbjerg, Aalborg University, Denmark: flyvbjerg@i4.auc.dk