November 2010 Ireland in Turmoil – The Relevance of Habermas and the Theory of Communicative Action
It may seem odd to make a connection between the current upheavals – the political, economic and national identity crisis in Ireland – and the work of Jurgen Habermas, a German social philosopher and critical theorist born in 1929. However, I believe that insights from the work of Habermas have something to offer by way…