Honneth Pathologies of Reason

On the Legacy of Critical Theory
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-0-231-51837-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
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E-Book, Englisch, Band 23, 236 Seiten, Format (B × H): 127 mm x 203 mm

Reihe: New Directions in Critical Theory

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Honneth, Axel

Weitere Mitwirkende

Ingram, James

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Dekonstruktivismus, Strukturalismus, Poststrukturalismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: Transzendentalphilosophie, Kritizismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
1. The Irreducibility of Progress: Kant's Account of the Relationship Between Morality and History
2. A Social Pathology of Reason: On the Intellectual Legacy of Critical Theory
3. Reconstructive Social Criticism with a Genealogical Proviso: On the Idea of "Critique" in the Frankfurt School
4. A Physiognomy of the Capitalist Form of Life: A Sketch of Adorno's Social Theory
5. Performing Justice: Adorno's Introduction to Negative Dialectics
6. Saving the Sacred with a Philosophy of History: On Benjamin's "Critique of Violence"
7. Appropriating Freedom: Freud's Conception of Individual Self-Relation
8. "Anxiety and Politics": The Strengths and Weaknesses of Franz Neumann's Diagnosis of a Social Pathology
9. Democracy and Inner Freedom: Alexander Mitscherlich's Contribution to Critical Social Theory
10. 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
Notes
Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Axel Honneth is professor of philosophy at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University of Frankfurt and director of the Institute for Social Research. He is the author of The Struggle for Recognition: The Moral Grammar of Social Conflicts, Philosophical Interventions in the Unfinished Project of Enlightenment, The Critique of Power: Reflective Stages in a Critical Social Theory, and Communicative Action: Essays on Jürgen Habermas's "The Theory of Communicative Action." James Ingram is an assistant professor of political science at McMaster University. He has translated works by Reinhart Koselleck, Christoph Menke, Hauke Brunkhorst, Jacques Derrida, and Étienne Balibar, among others.