Abstract
When understood as a public act of participation rather than solely as a private act of voting, political activity may be regarded either as an instrumental process in the pursuit of public ends or as a transformative process that fosters citizen development. In seeking to develop a discursive theory of governance, Fox and Miller have built especially on the notions of participative political process developed by Jürgen Habermas but, although they reject Habermas’s grounding in foundational moral principles, they have largely retained his emphases on both rational procedure and instrumental pursuit. Drawing on intersections of feminist, postmodernist, and critical ideas around the nature of the moral experience, this article seeks to envision an alternative notion of public sphere discourse, one grounded less in the rationality of argumentation and more in the nonrationality of human relationship.
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