'Agon' izing over consensus: Why Habermasian ideals cannot be 'real'

Planning Theory

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 37-59

  Hillier, Jean ^a  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Agonism; Consensus; Habermas; Lacan

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347742273     PISSN: 14730952     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1473095203002001005     Document Type: Article

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