Recovering Ethical Life Jurgen Habermas and the Future of Critical Theory

Name: Recovering Ethical Life Jurgen Habermas and the Future of Critical Theory
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ISBN: 9780415061940

ISBN-10: 0415061946

ISBN-13: 9780415061940

Edition: 1995 (Annotated)

Authors: J. M. Bernstein

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Jurgen Habermas' construction of a critical social theory of society grounded in communicative reason is one of the very few real philosophical inventions of recent times that demands and repays extended engagement. In this elaborate and sympathetic study which places Habermas' project in the context of critical theory as a whole past and future, J. M. Bernstein argues that despite its undoubted achievements, it contributes to the very problems of ethical dislocation and meaninglessness it aims to diagnose and remedy. Bernstein further argues that the precise character of the failures of Habermas' program demonstrate the necessity for a return to the first generation critical theory of…

Book details

List price: $210.00
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 12/13/1994
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 264
Size: 6.75" wide x 10.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English



Acknowledgements


Abbreviations


Introduction



Critical Theory - The Very Idea: Reflections on Nihilism and Domination



Liberty and the Ideal Speech Situation



Self-Knowledge as Praxis: Narrative and Narration in Psychoanalysis



Moral Norms and Ethical Identities: On the Linguistification of the Sacred



The Generalized Other, Concrete Others



The Causality of Fate: On Modernity and Modernism



Language, World-Disclosure and Judgment


Notes


Index