ABSTRACT
At his most ambitious, Habermas claims that the ideal of a consensually steered society is inherent to discourse ethics. 1 What would such a society look like? What would it require of citizens? What place does or should consensus have in our pluralistic world? Although not for the most part inspired by Habermas, many feminist activist groups have consciously adopted procedures of consensual will-formation. This paper investigates the dynamics of small-group consensual will-formation in the hope that such real-world undertakings can shed light on some of the above questions.
