Communication, Context, and Narrative

Although often cast by realists as an exemplar of moralist or rationalist thinking, Jürgen Habermas and certain commentators on his work reject this characterisation, highlighting elements thought that conflict with it. This article will examine dimensions Habermas’s relate to many realist concerns in political theory. I argue while he escapes the commonplace caricature abstract thinker who is inattentive real world affairs, claims relation communication, historical empirical context, development rights history, reveal a narrow consideration what defines context progressivist narrative history fails address seemingly outdated beliefs forces. An analysis these issues can serve inform understandings topics theory more broadly.