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. His essays, collected here, address the possibilities of continuing this tradition through radically changed theoretical and social conditions.

List of contents

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

About the author

Axel Honneth is Jack B. Weinstein Professor of the Humanities in the Department of Philosophy at Columbia University and was formerly professor of social philosophy at Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, where he also was the director of the Institute for Social Research.

James Ingram is associate professor of political science at McMaster University.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Axel Honneth
• Assisted by: James Ingram (Translation), Ingram James (Translation)
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.09.2023
• EAN: 9780231146272
• ISBN: 978-0-231-14627-2
• No. of pages: 236
• Series: New Directions in Critical Theory
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; PHILOSOPHY / Political, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Deconstruction, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Critical Theory, social and political philosophy, Political science and theory, Structuralism and Post-structuralism, Philosophy; history; sociology