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The handbook of critical theory / edited by David M. Rasmussen.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge, Mass : Blackwell Publishers, 1996.ISBN:
  • 0631183795
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 142 20
LOC classification:
  • B809.3 .H36 1996
Contents:
Editor's Introduction / David M. Rasmussen -- 1. Critical Theory and Philosophy / David M. Rasmussen -- 2. Urban Flights: The Institute of Social Research between Frankfurt and New York / Martin Jay -- 3. Critical Theory and Tragic Knowledge / Christoph Menke -- 4. Critical Theory and Empirical Research / Hauke Brunkhorst -- 5. The Communicative Paradigm in Moral Theory / Alessandro Ferrara -- 6. Justice, Reason, and Critique: Basic Concepts of Critical Theory / Rainer Forst -- 7. Habermas's Discourse Theory of Law and Democracy: An Overview of the Argument / William Rehg -- 8. Critical Theory and Democracy / James Bohman -- 9. Civil Society: Beyond the Public Sphere / Jodi Dean -- 10. Public Reason and Personal Autonomy / Kenneth Baynes -- 11. Karl-Otto Apel's Contribution to Critical Theory / Matthias Kettner -- 12. Fantasy and Critique: Some Thoughts on Freud and the Frankfurt School / Joel Whitebook -- 13. Theodor W. Adorno: Aesthetic Constructivism and a Negative Ethic of the Non-forfeited Life / Hauke Brunkhorst -- 14. Critical Theory and Postmodernism: On the Interplay of Ethics, Aesthetics, and Utopia in Critical Theory / Seyla Benhabib -- 15. Critical Theory and Postmodernism: A Response to David Hoy / Thomas McCarthy -- 16. Pathologies of the Social: The Past and Present of Social Philosophy / Axel Honneth -- 17. A Bibliography of Critical Theory / James Swindal.
Summary: The Handbook of Critical Theory brings together for the first time a detailed examination of the state of critical theory today. The sixteen essays provide analyses of the various orientations that critical theory has taken both historically and systematically in recent years, expositions of the new perspectives that have begun to shape the field, and reflections upon the direction of critical theory. Although critical theory has undergone numerous transformations over the years, it is alive and well, as is represented by its practitioners, the best of whom are represented in this superlative volume.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Editor's Introduction / David M. Rasmussen -- 1. Critical Theory and Philosophy / David M. Rasmussen -- 2. Urban Flights: The Institute of Social Research between Frankfurt and New York / Martin Jay -- 3. Critical Theory and Tragic Knowledge / Christoph Menke -- 4. Critical Theory and Empirical Research / Hauke Brunkhorst -- 5. The Communicative Paradigm in Moral Theory / Alessandro Ferrara -- 6. Justice, Reason, and Critique: Basic Concepts of Critical Theory / Rainer Forst -- 7. Habermas's Discourse Theory of Law and Democracy: An Overview of the Argument / William Rehg -- 8. Critical Theory and Democracy / James Bohman -- 9. Civil Society: Beyond the Public Sphere / Jodi Dean -- 10. Public Reason and Personal Autonomy / Kenneth Baynes -- 11. Karl-Otto Apel's Contribution to Critical Theory / Matthias Kettner -- 12. Fantasy and Critique: Some Thoughts on Freud and the Frankfurt School / Joel Whitebook -- 13. Theodor W. Adorno: Aesthetic Constructivism and a Negative Ethic of the Non-forfeited Life / Hauke Brunkhorst -- 14. Critical Theory and Postmodernism: On the Interplay of Ethics, Aesthetics, and Utopia in Critical Theory / Seyla Benhabib -- 15. Critical Theory and Postmodernism: A Response to David Hoy / Thomas McCarthy -- 16. Pathologies of the Social: The Past and Present of Social Philosophy / Axel Honneth -- 17. A Bibliography of Critical Theory / James Swindal.

The Handbook of Critical Theory brings together for the first time a detailed examination of the state of critical theory today. The sixteen essays provide analyses of the various orientations that critical theory has taken both historically and systematically in recent years, expositions of the new perspectives that have begun to shape the field, and reflections upon the direction of critical theory. Although critical theory has undergone numerous transformations over the years, it is alive and well, as is represented by its practitioners, the best of whom are represented in this superlative volume.