PHIL2634 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Jacques Derrida, Jacques Lacan, Michel Foucault
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(13): radical theories of democracy: foucault, derrida, zizek. In addition to rational choice theory and the theories of deliberative democracy associated with. Rawls and habermas, the final strand of modern democratic theory that needs some examination is the tradition of critical theory. Critical theory emerged from the problems of traditional. They argued that marx or at least marxism had underestimated the power of ideas and placed too much emphasis on economic considerations in the abstract. After 1945, critical theory developed in a variety of different directions. Jacques derrida developed the theory of deconstruction which emphasized that we do not have full control over the meaning of the language that we employ , and applied it to texts of all kinds, literary, philosophical, and political. What all these thinkers thus had in common was an emphasis on the importance of language .
