Critique, Norm, and Utopia: A Study of the Foundations of Critical TheoryDisplaying an impressive command of complex materials, Seyla Benhabib reconstructs the history of theories from a systematic point of view and examines the origins and transformations of the concept of critique from the works of Hegel to Habermas. Through investigating the model of the philosophy of the subject, she pursues the question of how Hegel's critiques might be useful for reforumulating the foundations of critical social theory. |
Contents
Chapter One The Origins of Immanent Critique | 19 |
Chapter Two The Origins of Defetishizing Critique | 44 |
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Transsubjective Ideal of Freedom | 84 |
Chapter Five The Critique of Instrumental Reason | 147 |
The Critique of Instrumental Reason | 163 |
Chapter Six Autonomy as Mimetic Reconciliation | 186 |
Chapter Seven The Critique of Functionalist Reason | 224 |
Chapter Eight Toward a Communicative Ethics | 279 |
Reformulation | 297 |
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Critique, Norm, and Utopia: A Study of the Foundations of Critical Theory Seyla Benhabib No preview available - 1986 |
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1844 Manuscripts abstract Adorno and Horkheimer agent analysis analyzed argument autonomy become bourgeois capitalism chapter civil society claim cognitive collective singular communicative action communicative ethics concept concrete consciousness constitutive crises crisis critical social theory critical theory cultural dialectic Dialectic of Enlightenment discourse domination emancipation Enlightenment external formulation Frankfurt School freedom Habermas Hegel Hegel's critique Hegelian Horkheimer's human activity ideal speech situation identity immanent immanent critique individual insofar interaction interpretation intersubjectivity Jürgen Habermas Kant labor labor power Legitimation Crisis lifeworld logic Marx Marx's Marxian Marxism means mode model of action modern natural right Natural Law essay natural right theories needs normative object objectification perspective Phenomenology Phenomenology of Spirit political economy praxis presupposes principle procedure production question radical rational reappropriation reason relations sphere Spirit standpoint structure tion tive tradition transformation transsubjective unity universal universalizability utopian validity Weber