Pathologies of reason : on the legacy of critical theory /
Collected here for the first time in English, Honneth's essays pursue the unifying themes and theses that support the methodologies and thematics of critical social theory, and they address the possibilities of continuing this tradition through radically changed theoretical and social condition...
Clasificación: | HM585 H6.6613 |
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Formato: | Libro |
Idioma: | Inglés Alemán |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
[2009].
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Colección: | New directions in critical theory
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- One. Irreducibility of progress : Kant's account of the relationship between morality and history.
- Two. Social pathology of reason : on the intellectual legacy of critical theory.
- Three. Reconstructive social criticism with a genealogical proviso : on the idea of "critique" in the Frankfurt School.
- Four. Physiognomy of the capitalist form of life : a sketch of Adorno's social theory.
- Five. Performing justice : Adorno's introduction to Negative dialectics.
- Six. Saving the sacred with a philosophy of history : on Benjamin's "Critique of violence".
- Seven. Appropriating freedom : Freud's conception of individual self-relation.
- Eight. "Anxiety and politics" : the strengths and weaknesses of Franz Neumann's diagnosis of a social pathology.
- Nine. Democracy and inner freedom : Alexander Mitscherlich's contribution to critical social theory.
- Ten. Dissonances of communicative reason : Albrecht Wellmer and critical theory. Appendix. Idiosyncrasy as a Tool of Knowledge: social criticism in the age of the normalized intellectual.