Critique of Communicative Rationality
The theory of communicative rationality has been criticized for being utopian and idealistic (Foucault 1988, Flyvbjerg 1998, Calhoun 1992), for being blind to issues of gender, race, ethnicity, and sexuality (Cohen 1995, Fraser 1987, Ryan 1992), and for ignoring the role of conflict, contest, and exclusion in the historical constitution of the public sphere (Eley 1992).
More recently, Nikolas Kompridis has taken issue with Habermas' conception of rationality as incoherent and insufficiently complex, proposing a "possibility-disclosing" role for reason that goes beyond the narrow proceduralism of Habermas' theory. (Kompridis, 2006)
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