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Feminist Criticisms of Habermas's Ethics and Politics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 April 2010

Tony Couture
Tony Couture
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University of Prince Edward Island
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My project is to assess recent objections directed at Jürgen Habermas by Nancy Fraser, Iris Young and Seyla Benhabib. This dispute is significant because it concerns the value of the Enlightenment style, detached criticism promoted by Habermas as compared to new proposals about dissent from a stance connected to social movements. I argue that these feminist criticisms of Habermas's critical theory are compelling and that they require substantial changes in Habermas's thinking.

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Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review / Revue canadienne de philosophie , Volume 34 , Issue 2 , Spring 1995 , pp. 259 - 280
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Copyright © Canadian Philosophical Association 1995

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