Emergence of Dialectical Theory - Philosophy and Political Inquiry

Informationen zum Autor Scott Warren""is associate professor of philosophy and political science at Antioch College. Klappentext Scott Warren's ambitious and enduring work sets out to resolve the ongoing identity crisis of contemporary political inquiry. In the Emergence of Dialectical Theory! Warren begins with a careful analysis of the philosophical foundations of dialectical theory in the thought of Kant! Hegel! and Marx. He then examines how the dialectic functions in the major twentieth-century philosophical movements of existentialism! phenomenology! neomarxism! and critical theory. Numerous major and minor philosophers are discussed! but the emphasis falls on two of the greatest dialectical thinkers of the previous century: Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Jurgen Habermas. Warren's shrewd critique is indispensable to those interested in the history of social and political thought and the philosophical foundations of political theory. His work offers an alternative for those who find postmodernism to be at a philosophical impasse. [This book] is stimulating and thought provoking . . . [Warren] has the instinct to raise the right questions.--Zoltan Tar! Contemporary Sociology

Product details

• Authors: Scott Warren, Warren Scott
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.12.2007
• EAN: 9780226873916
• ISBN: 978-0-226-87391-6
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 146 mm x 229 mm x 13 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political theories and the history of ideas