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These thirteen essays by noted philosophers and social theorists continue a timely celebration and examination of J& uuml; rgen Habermass unfinished project of reconstructing enlightenment rationality.
Sommario
Part 1 Critical theory and political practice: domination or emancipation? the debate over the heritage of critical theory, Helmut Dubiel; disorder is possible - an essay on systems, laws, and disobedience, Gunter Frankenberg; autonomy, modernity, and community - communitarianism and critical social theory in dialogue, Seyla Benhabib. Part 2 The sociology of political culture: bindings, shackles, brakes - on self-limitation, Claus Offe; politics and culture - on the sociocultural analysis of political participation, Klaus Eder; politics and the reconstruction of the concept of civil society, Jean cohen and Andrew Arato. Part 3 Historical-philosophical reflections on culture: culture and Bourgeois society - the unity fo reason in a divided society, Hauke Brunkhorst; culture and media, Hans-George Gadamer; anamnestic reason - a theologian's remarks on the crisis in the "Geisteswissenschaften", Johann Baptist Metz. Part 4 Moral development in childhood and society: moral development and social struggle - Hegel's early social-philosophical doctrines, Axel Honneth; knowing and wanting - on moral development in early childhood, Gertrud Nunner-Winkler. Part 5 Foundations of critical social theory: world interpretation and mutual understanding, Johann P. Arnason; power, politics, autonomy, Cornelius Castoriadis.
Info autore
Axel Honneth is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Konstanz. Thomas McCarthy is John Schaffer Professor in the Humanities at Northwestern University and the editor of the MIT Press series Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought. Claus Offe has researched and lectured widely throughout Europe and North America and is Professor in the Faculty of Sociology at the University of Bielefeld. Albrecht Wellmer is Professor of Philosophy at the Free University of Berlin.
Riassunto
These thirteen essays by noted philosophers and social theorists continue a timely celebration and examination of Jurgen Habermas's unfinished project of reconstructing enlightenment rationality.
