The Korea Local Administration Review

Taken together, the works of J. Habermas and M. Foucault highlight anessential tension in modernity. This is tension between the normative and thereal, between what should be done and what is actually done. Understandingthis tension is crutial to understanding modern planning, what it is and what itcould be. It has been argued that an effective way of making democracystronger is to strengthen civil society. This article contains analysis of thecentral ideas of Foucault as he pertains to the question of democracy and civilsociety. More specifically, the power analytics of Foucault evaluating hisusefulness for those interested in understanding, and bringing about, democraticplanning.
□ Keywords: M. Foucault, power, discourse, knowledge, urban planning