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Pathologies of Reason - On the Legacy of Critical Theory

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Informationen zum Autor 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 Jurgen 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 Etienne Balibar! among others. Klappentext 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 the Frankfurt School! which counted Theodor W. Adorno! Max Horkheimer! Walter Benjamin! Jürgen Habermas! Franz Neumann! and Albrecht Wellmer as members. They also engage with Kant! Freud! Alexander Mitscherlich! and Michael Walzer! whose work on morality! history! democracy! and individuality intersects with the Frankfurt School's core concerns. Zusammenfassung Axel Honneth has been instrumental in advancing the work of the Frankfurt School of critical theorists. His essays, collected here, address the possibilities of continuing this tradition through radically changed theoretical and social conditions. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface1. The Irreducibility of Progress: Kant's Account of the Relationship Between Morality and History2. A Social Pathology of Reason: On the Intellectual Legacy of Critical Theory3. Reconstructive Social Criticism with a Genealogical Proviso: On the Idea of "Critique" in the Frankfurt School4. A Physiognomy of the Capitalist Form of Life: A Sketch of Adorno's Social Theory5. Performing Justice: Adorno's Introduction to Negative Dialectics6. Saving the Sacred with a Philosophy of History: On Benjamin's "Critique of Violence"7. Appropriating Freedom: Freud's Conception of Individual Self-Relation8. "Anxiety and Politics": The Strengths and Weaknesses of Franz Neumann's Diagnosis of a Social Pathology9. Democracy and Inner Freedom: Alexander Mitscherlich's Contribution to Critical Social Theory10. Dissonances of Communicative Reason: Albrecht Wellmer and Critical TheoryAppendix: Idiosyncrasy as a Tool of Knowledge: Social Criticism in the Age of the Normalized IntellectualNotesBibliography ...

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