Jurgen Habermas and Deliberative Democracy

Jurgen Habermas is one of the most influential thinkers of our time. This detailed, article length guide examines his theory of deliberative democracy and covers many of the central concepts such as communicative reason, communicative power, and the ideal speech community. Dr. Hercules Bantas has spent far too much of his time reading ponderous tomes, written by authors who use one thousand words where one hundred would suffice. It was while juggling no less than three publications on a single subject by the same author that the idea of The Reluctant Geek Guides was born. He is well aware that publishing clearly written and unambiguous guides to important ideas in the human sciences is frowned upon in some circles, but he's going to do it anyway.