Critical Theory
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Critical Theory

Current State and Future Prospects

  1. 208 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Critical Theory

Current State and Future Prospects

About this book

The retirement of the distinguished philosopher Jürgen Habermas from his chair at the University of Frankfurt signalled an important caesura in the history of Critical Theory: the transition from the Habermasian project, to different forms of inquiry in the work of the next generation. This change-over happens at a time when it has become clear that Habermas's systematic exploration of communicative rationality has reached the point where both its achievements and its limitations had become evident. The essays collected in this volume address the problems connected with this transition, partly by returning to the insights of the first generation (Adorno and Benjamin), partly by focusing on questions raised by Habermas's work. Whatever the difference in the authors' positions, this collection gains its unity through their common interest in the significance and value of Critical Theory today and in its future as a philosophical project.

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Information

Year
2001
Print ISBN
9781571812360
eBook ISBN
9781782388562

Table of contents

  1. Critical Theory
  2. CONTENTS
  3. PREFACE
  4. Section I. INTRODUCTION
  5. Chapter 1. FROM THE ECLIPSE OF REASON TO COMMUNICATIVE RATIONALITY AND BEYOND
  6. Section II. ADORNO AND BENJAMIN
  7. Chapter 2. IS EXPERIENCE STILL IN CRISIS?
  8. Chapter 3. MEGA MELANCHOLIA
  9. Chapter 4. STUMBLING INTO MODERNITY
  10. Chapter 5. AESTHETIC POLITICS TODAY
  11. Section III. IN THE WAKE OFJÜRGEN HABERMAS
  12. Chapter 6. CRITIQUE AND SELF-REFLECTION
  13. Chapter 7. DIALOGICAL RATIONALITY AND THE CRITIQUE OF ABSOLUTE AUTONOMY
  14. Chapter 8. CIVIL SOCIETY IN THE INFORMATION AGE
  15. Chapter 9. BETWEEN RIGHTS AND HOSPITALITY
  16. Chapter 10. A QUESTION OF GROUNDING
  17. Section IV. A CONTEMPORARY CHALLENGE TO CRITICAL THEORY
  18. Chapter 11. CRITICAL THEORY AND SYSTEMS THEORY
  19. Chapter 12. OBSERVATIONS ON OBSERVATIONS
  20. Section V. EPILOGUE
  21. Chapter 13. NORMATIVITY AND ITS LIMITS
  22. BIBLIOGRAPHY
  23. INDEX