Contesting Habermas:: Towards a Recovery of Dialectical Reason in Contemporary Critical Theory - Softcover

O'Hanlon, Philip

 
9783847378938: Contesting Habermas:: Towards a Recovery of Dialectical Reason in Contemporary Critical Theory
Softcover
ISBN 10: 3847378937 ISBN 13: 9783847378938
Verlag: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2012

Inhaltsangabe

In this book, the author offers a critical assessment of the state of critical theory as expounded in the works of its most recent adherent - Jürgen Habermas. The author argues that under Habermas's stewardship, critical theory has taken a wrong turn, and this has left it conceptually ill-equipped to serve as a critical theory of contemporary society. The roots of this problem lie in Habermas's jettisoning the Hegelian and dialectical heritage of critical theory for one grounded in the moral philosophy of Kant. This is explained by what the author argues is a serious misreading of Hegel, associating dialectics with absolutist tendencies, or in the case of Adorno, with aporia and fatalism. The author proceeds to expose these misreadings, arguing that a return to Hegel is not only viable but necessary if we are to return the critical impulse to critical theory.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Philip O'Hanlon is a graduate of the universities of Warwick, Manchester and Queen's Belfast, having taught philosophy and political theory at the latter. This book is based on his PhD thesis which sought to evaluate Kantian themes in Habermas's thought, from a neo-Hegelian perspective.

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Verlag
LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
Erscheinungsdatum
2012
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
3847378937
ISBN 13 
9783847378938
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Anzahl der Seiten
388
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