Critique of forms of life /

For many liberals, the question "Do others live rightly?" feels inappropriate. Liberalism seems to demand a follow-up question: "Who am I to judge?" Peaceful coexistence, in this view, is predicated on restraint from morally evaluating our peers. But Rahel Jaeggi sees the situati...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Jaeggi, Rahel (Autor)
Otros Autores: Cronin, Ciaran (Traductor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Alemán
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2018.
Temas:
Social sciences > Philosophy.
Social history > Philosophy.
Social change > Moral and ethical aspects.
Social ethics.
Criticism (Philosophy)
Sciences sociales > Philosophie.
Histoire sociale > Philosophie.
Criticisme.
PHILOSOPHY > Ethics & Moral Philosophy.
PHILOSOPHY > Social.
Social ethics
Social history > Philosophy
Social sciences > Philosophy
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Against "ethical abstinence"
  • Part I. An ensemble of practices: forms of life as social formations: What is a form of life?
  • Form of life: concept and phenomenon
  • Duration, depth, scope
  • A modular concept of forms of life
  • Forms of life as inert ensembles of practices
  • What are (social) practices?
  • The interconnected character of practices
  • The moment of inertia
  • Practice, criticism, reflection
  • Part II. Solutions to problems: forms of life as normatively constituted formations: The normativity of forms of life
  • Norms and normativity
  • Modes of normativity
  • Three types of norm justification
  • "Failure to correspond to its concept"
  • Forms of life as problem-solving entities
  • What are problems?
  • Given or made? The problem with problems
  • Attempts at problem-solving: Hegel's theory of the family
  • Crises of problem-solving
  • Second order problems
  • Part III. Forms of criticism: What is internal criticism?
  • External and internal criticism
  • The strategy of internal criticism
  • Advantages and limits of internal criticism
  • "To find the new world through criticism of the old one": immanent criticism
  • Criticism of a new type
  • The strategy of immanent criticism
  • Potentials and difficulties
  • Part IV. The dynamics of crisis and the rationality of social change: Successful and failed learning processes
  • Change, learning, development, progress
  • Are forms of life capable of learning?
  • Deficient learning processes
  • Why does history matter?
  • Crisis-induced transformations: Dewey, MacIntyre, Hegel
  • Social change as experimental problem-solving
  • The dynamics of traditions
  • History as a dialectical learning process
  • Problem or contradiction?
  • Problems as indeterminacy
  • Crisis as a break in continuity
  • Crisis as dialectical contradiction
  • The problem with contradiction
  • The dynamics of learning processes
  • Problem-solving as an experimental learning process
  • The dynamics of traditions
  • "The source of progress and of degeneration"
  • A dialectical-pragmatist understanding of learning processes
  • Conclusion: A critical theory of criticism of forms of life.

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