@book{99e45410003711dab4d5000ea68e967b,
title = "Ideal Theory, Real Rationality: Habermas versus Focault and Nietzsche",
abstract = "Understanding rationality and power are key to understanding actual political and administrative behavior. Political and administrative theory that ignores this fact stand in danger of being at best irrelevant or, at worst part of the problem it whishes to solve. The paper presents J{\"u}rgen Habermas as an example of a political philosopher who fails to recognize that actual political and administrative rationality lagely disrupts the relevance of his ideal prescriptopns. Michel Foucault proposed as an antidote to Habermas in a comparativestudy of the two. Machiavellian {"}verita effettuale{"} (effective truth) and Nietzschean {"}wirkliche Historie{"} (real history) are seen as more effective means to understand and limit rationalization and power than Habermasian {"}Diskursetik{"} (discourse etik).",
keywords = "Friedrich Nietzsche, Michel Foucault, Machiavelli, Political and administrative rationality, J{\"u}rgen Habermas, Power",
author = "Bent Flyvbjerg",
note = "Reprinted from Paper for the Polotocal Studies Association`s 50th Annual Conference, {"}The Challenges for Democracy in the 21st Century, London School of Economics and Political Science, 10-13 2000, 20 pp.",
year = "2004",
language = "English",
isbn = "8790893700",
publisher = "Institut for Samfundsudvikling og Planl{\ae}gning, Aalborg Universitet",
}