Critical theory : current state and future prospects /

The retirement of the distinguished philosopher Jurgen Habermas from his chair at the University of Frankfurt signalled an important caesura in the history of Critical Theory: the transition from the Habermasian project, to different forms of inquiry in the work of the next generation. This change-o...

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Other Authors: Hohendahl, Peter Uwe (Editor), Fisher, Jaimey (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Berghahn Books, 2001.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. From the eclipse of reason to communicative rationality and beyond
  • 2. Is experience still in crisis? Reflections on a Frankfurt School lament
  • 3. Mega melancholia : Adorno's Minima moralia
  • 4. Stumbling into modernity : body and soma in Adorno
  • 5. Aesthetic politics today : Walter Benjamin and port-Fordist culture
  • 6. Critique and self-reflection : the problematization of morality
  • 7. Dialogical rationality and the critique of absolute autonomy
  • 8. Civil society in the information age : beyond the public sphere
  • 9. Between rights and hospitality : cosmopolitan democracy, nation, and cultural identity
  • 10. A question of grounding : reconstruction and strict reflexion in Habermas and Apel
  • 11. Critical theory and systems theory
  • 12. Observations on observations : some remarks on Adorno's aesthetic theory
  • 13. Normativity and its limits : toward a residual ethics in critical theory.