Foucault Contra Habermas

Samantha Ashenden is Senior Lecturer in Sociology. She has a BA (Hons) Applied Social Science from Kingston University, an M.Phil in Social and Political Theory from the University of Cambridge, and a Ph.D in Sociology from the University of London. She has published on problems of power, authority and legitimacy within constitutional states, the role of expertise in contemporary governance, and on feminist theory and child sexual abuse. She has taught on the London Consortium Ph.D Programme, and at the Architectural Association School of Architecture, as well as at Queen Mary University of London, the University of North London, and Kingston University. Sam is currently Chair of the BA Politics, Philosophy and History. She is the Managing Editor of the journal Economy and Society and is reviews editor for the journal Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy David Owen is lecturer in politics at the University of Southampton. His previous publications include Maturity and Modernity (1994) and Nietzsche, Politics and Modernity (1995). CONTRIBUTORS OUTSIDE WESTERN HEMISPHERE Samanta Ashenden Birkbeck College University of London Paul Connolly University of Ulster Mitchell Dean Macquarrie University Peter Jowers University of the West of England Thomas Osborne University of Bristol Ralph Schroeder Royal Holloway College University of London Nigel South University of Essex Sean Watson University of the West of England Malcolm Waters University of Tasmania

Introduction - Samantha Ashenden and David Owen Foucault, Habermas and the Politics of Critique Orientation and Enlightenment - David Owen An Essay on Critique and Genealogy Critical Spirituality - Thomas Osborne On Ethics and Politics in the Later Foucault Pas de deux - Daniel W Conway Habermas and Foucault in Genealogical Communication To Think and Act Differently - James Tully Foucault's Four Reciprocal Objections to Habermas' Theory Questions of Criticism - Samantha Ashenden Habermas and Foucault on Civil Society and Resistance Normalizing Democracy - Mitchell Dean Foucault and Habermas on Democracy, Liberalism and Law The Agony and the Ecstasy - Simon Thompson Foucault, Habermas and the Problem of Recognition