Borman The Idolatry of the Actual

Habermas, Socialization, and the Possibility of Autonomy
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-4384-3738-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 330 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series in the Philosophy of the Social Sciences

Reinvigorates Jürgen Habermas’ early critical theory.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Borman, David A.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INTRODUCTION

The Structure of Critical-Theoretical Argument
The Argument
The Critique of Late Habermas

1. CAPITALISM AND CONTRADICTION IN LEGITIMATION CRISIS

On the Concept of Crisis
System and Lifeworld
Liberal Capitalism and Contradiction
“A Descriptive Model of Advanced Capitalism”
Crisis Tendencies in Advanced Capitalism
The Critical Reception of Legitimation Crisis

2. RATIONALIZATION AND SOCIAL PATHOLOGY IN THE THEORY OF COMMUNICATIVE ACTION

The Theory of Communicative Action in a Nutshell
Linguistification as Rationalization: An Evolutionary Account of the Lifeworld
Mediatization as Rationalization: An Evolutionary Account of System
System and Lifeworld Interchange Roles and the Thesis of Colonization
Summary
Protest Potential in The Theory of Communicative Action
Culture and Economy: On the Instrumentalization of Status Distinctions
The “Inevitability” of System

POSTSCRIPT: BETWEEN FACTS AND NORMS, IN WHICH LAW SAVES US FROM OURSELVES

INTERMEDIATE REFLECTIONS: HABERMAS AND THE SOCIOLOGY OF THE SCHOOL

Habermas on the Function of the School
Dominant Perspectives in the Sociology of the School
Schooling in Capitalist America: The Correspondence Principle
Correspondence and Legitimation
Jean Anyon and the Differentiation of the “Hidden Curriculum”
Paul Willis and “the Lads”
The Educational Exchange and the Counter-School Insight
“The Lads” Culture and the Role of Race and Gender
Fatalism, Positivism, and Working Class Culture
Conclusion

3. MORAL CONSCIOUSNESS AND POSTCONVENTIONALITY

Interactive Competence and the System of Speaker and World Perspectives
Postconventionality and Discourse
Vindicating the Developmental-Logical Argument
Problems in Kohlberg

4. SOCIALIZATION AND EGO AUTONOMY

The True Individual
The Causes of Postconventionality
Arrested Development and the Systems-Theoretical Individual
Arrested Development and Moral Consciousness

CONCLUDING REFLECTIONS: MULTICULTURAL IDENTITY AS POSTCONVENTIONALITY

New York Multiculturalism and the “Contact” Hypothesis
Multiculturalism as a Fact and Multicultural Integration as an Aim of Policy
Multiculturalism as Political Integration
Constitutional Patriotism as Multicultural Identity
The Actualization of Democratic Rights as a Source of Postconventional Recognition
Multicultural Education and Capitalist Colonization: A Social Contradiction
The Practical Significance of the Contradiction
Conclusion: The Status of the Argument

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

David A. Borman is Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Winnipeg.