Pathologies of reason : on the legacy of critical theory /

Axel Honneth has been instrumental in advancing the work of the Frankfurt School of critical theorists, rebuilding their effort to combine radical social and political analysis with rigorous philosophical inquiry. These eleven essays published over the past five years reclaim the relevant themes of...

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Main Author: Honneth, Axel, 1949-
Other Authors: Ingram, James
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
German
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, ©2009.
Series:New directions in critical theory.
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • The irreducibility of progress : Kant's account of the relationship between morality and history
  • A social pathology of reason : on the intellectual legacy of critical theory
  • Reconstructive social criticism with a genealogical proviso : on the idea of "critique" in the Frankfurt School
  • A physiognomy of the capitalist form of life : a sketch of Adorno's social theory
  • Performing justice : Adorno's introduction to Negative dialectics
  • Saving the sacred with a philosophy of history : on Benjamin's "Critique of violence"
  • Appropriating freedom : Freud's conception of individual self-relation
  • "Anxiety and politics" : the strengths and weaknesses of Franz Neumann's diagnosis of a social pathology
  • Democracy and inner freedom : Alexander Mitscherlich's contribution to critical social theory
  • 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.