http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/keyword/jurgen-habermas Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Fri, 05 Jun 2026 00:45:27 -0400 Fri, 05 Jun 2026 00:45:27 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/912/comparing-the-philosophy-of-jurgen-habermas-and-michel-foucault By Frank Wang - Second, the essay argues that in their respective projects, the stress on the importance of the social contract differs. For Foucault, the social contract is the means to which the bourgeois class used to secure social order to protect their property and it was a step toward the diffusion of power; whereas for Habermas, he completely rejects the use of a social contract to create social order, for he finds communicative action to be capable of addressing weaknesses that social order does not account for. Third, it argues that whereas Foucault recognizes power relations as foundational for social... Mon, 08 Sep 2014 10:10 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/912/comparing-the-philosophy-of-jurgen-habermas-and-michel-foucault