00000cab a22000004cb4500 IPP-00000659098 IPP 20240423112856.0 240423s2022 xx d | ||r |||||eng|| eng Parcon, Ian Clark R. The Paradox of Deliberation Jürgen Habermas and the Rational Approach to the Normative Theory of Democracy The Paradox of Deliberation 2022 Jürgen Habermas anchors his theory of democracy on communicative rationality, which he translates into procedural rationality geared towards the attainment of consensus. In this study, I present his theory of democracy and discuss its limitations. I then argue that for a more comprehensive theory of democracy, the insights from other theories, specifically, the agonistic perspective of Chantal Mouffe, should be seriously taken into account. Habermas, Jurgen Democracy Discourse analysis Budhi: a Journal of Ideas and Culture Vol. 26, no. 2 (2022), 1-32 Article FI