Name: Pathologies of Reason: On the Legacy of Critical Theory (New Directions in Critical Theory)
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Author: Axel Honneth
ISBN: 9780231146272

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Pathologies of Reason: On the Legacy of Critical Theory (New Directions in Critical Theory)

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Physical Book

Author

Axel Honneth

Publisher

Columbia University Press

Language

English

Pages

236

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9780231146272

Pathologies of Reason: On the Legacy of Critical Theory (New Directions in Critical Theory)

Axel Honneth (Author) · Columbia University Press · Paperback

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Synopsis "Pathologies of Reason: On the Legacy of Critical Theory (New Directions in Critical Theory) "

Axel Honneth has been instrumental in advancing the work of the Frankfurt School of critical theorists, rebuilding their effort to combine radical social and political analysis with rigorous philosophical inquiry. These eleven essays reclaim the relevant themes of the Frankfurt School, which counted Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Walter Benjamin, Jürgen Habermas, Franz Neumann, and Albrecht Wellmer as members. They also engage with Kant, Freud, Alexander Mitscherlich, and Michael Walzer, whose work on morality, history, democracy, and individuality intersects with the Frankfurt School's core concerns. Collected here for the first time in English, Honneth's essays pursue the unifying themes and theses that support the methodologies and thematics of critical social theory, and they address the possibilities of continuing this tradition through radically changed theoretical and social conditions. According to Honneth, there is a unity that underlies critical theory's multiple approaches: the way in which reason is both distorted and furthered in contemporary capitalist society. And while much is dead in the social and psychological doctrines of critical social theory, its central inquiries remain vitally relevant. Is social progress still possible after the horrors of the twentieth century? Does capitalism deform reason and, if so, in what respects? Can we justify the relationship between law and violence in secular terms, or is it inextricably bound to divine justice? How can we be free when we're subject to socialization in a highly complex and in many respects unfree society? For Honneth, suffering and moral struggle are departure points for a new "reconstructive" form of social criticism, one that is based solidly in the empirically grounded, interdisciplinary approach of the Frankfurt School.

Axel Honneth

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Axel Honneth is a German philosopher and sociologist regarded as one of the most significant figures of the so-called third generation of the Frankfurt School, known for his research in the theory of recognition and as a follower of the tradition of Critical Theory of society.

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