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An edition of Critical Theory (1986)

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Philosophical controversies within contemporary critical theory arise largely from questions about the nature, scope and limits of human reason. As the linguistic turn in twentieth-century philosophy has increasingly given way to a sociocritical turn, traditional ideas of 'pure' reason have been left further and further behind. There is however considerable disagreement about what that shift entails for enlightenment ideals of self-consciousness, self-determination, and self-realization.

In this book two prominent philosophers bring these disagreements into focus around a set of familiar philosophical issues concerning reason and the rational subject, truth and representation, knowledge and objectivity, identity and difference, relativism and universalism, the right and the good. But these "perennial problems" are resituated within the context of critical theory as it has developed from the work of the Frankfurt School in the 1930's and 1940's to the multiplicity of contemporary approaches: genealogical, hermeneutic, neopragmatist, deconstructive, and reconstructive.

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Table of Contents

Introduction
Page 1
Part I: Philosophy and Critical Theory: A Reprise (Thomas McCarthy)
Page 5
1. On the Idea of a Critical Theory and It’s Relation to philosophy
Page 7
1.1. Horkheimer on Historicism
Page 9
1.2. Traditional and Critical Theory
Page 13
1.3. The Aufhebung of Philosophy
Page 22
2. Reason in a Postmetaphysical Age
Page 31
2.1. Deconstructionist Critiques of Reason
Page 32
2.2. Communication and Idealization
Page 38
2.3. Accountability and Autonomy
Page 42
2.4. Discourse Ethics
Page 47
3. On the Pragmatics of Communicative Reason
Page 63
3.1. The Rational Properties of Practical Activities
Page 64
3.2. Pragmatizing Communicative Rationality
Page 74
3.3. On the Methodologies of Critical Social Theory
Page 81
3.4. Multicultural Cosmopolitanism
Page 86
Part II: Critical Theory and Critical History (David Couzens Hoy)
Page 101
4. A Deconstructive Reading of the Early Frankfurt School
Page 103
4.1. Tensions in Horkheimer
Page 103
4.2. Deferrals in Adorno
Page 114
4.3. Anticipations of Poststructuralism
Page 119
5. Conflicting Versions of Critique: Foucault verses Habermas
Page 144
5.1. Foucault and the Frankfurt School
Page 144
5.2. Naturalizing Philosophy with Evolutionary Stories
Page 149
5.3. From Hegel to Nietzsche
Page 155
5.4. Genealogy’s Critique of Habermas
Page 158
5.5. The Critical Potential of History and of Theory
Page 164
6. The Contingency of Universality: Critical Theory as Genealogical Hermeneutics
Page 172
6.1. Genealogy For and Against
Page 172
6.2. Habermas’s Universalism
Page 177
6.3. Gadamer’s Hermeneutical Pluralism
Page 188
6.4. Genealogical Hermeneutics
Page 200
Part III: For and Against
Page 215
7. Rejoinder to David Hoy (Thomas McCarthy)
Page 217
7.1. Pragmatism
Page 217
7.2. Genealogy
Page 224
7.3. Hermeneutics
Page 230
7.4. Pluralism
Page 238
8. Rejoinder to Thomas McCarthy (David Couzens Hoy)
Page 249
8.1. Rational Agents or Cultural Dopes
Page 250
8.2. Local Solidarity or Universal Audience?
Page 253
8.3. Pluralism or Concensus?
Page 263
8.4. Identity in Difference?
Page 266
Index
Page 274

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Oxford, UK, Cambridge, Mass., USA
Series
Great Debates in Philosophy
Copyright Date
1994

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142
Library of Congress
B809.3 .H68 1994, B809.3.H68 1994, B 809.3 .H68 1994

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viii, 280p.
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