1. *I would like to thank Rueban Balasubramaniam, Ryan Balot, Joe Carens, Erica Frederiksen, Alon Harel, Rinku Lamba, Mary Liston, Sarah Miller, Cheryl Misak, Jonathan Peterson, Mathias Thaler, Melissa Williams, the participants in the 14thAnnual Critical Theory Roundtable (Windsor, Ontario, October 2006) and the editor and anonymous referees of the JPP for their helpful comments on previous versions of the manuscript and for valuable discussions on these topics. The ideas for this article were developed in part while participating in a Habermas reading group Simone Chambers organized for her graduate students at the University of Toronto; I want to thank Simone and the participants for the very helpful conversations.
2. 1Steven Lukes,Power: A Radical View(New York: Palgrave, 2005).
3. 2Lukes, "Power: a radical view,"Power: A Radical View, pp. 109-110 at p. 79.
4. 3Ibid, p. 38.
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