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Refiguring critical theory : Jürgen Habermas and the possibilities of political change

Title
Refiguring critical theory : Jürgen Habermas and the possibilities of political change / J. Craig Hanks.
Author
Hanks, Craig.
Publication
Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, ©2002.

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Description
xi, 172 pages; 23 cm
Summary
Refiguring Critical Theory offers some thoughts about the nature of democracy and the possibilities of individual and collective self-determination. The text traces theories of the relationship between being and consciousness from Marx through Lukacs and the Frankfurt School to Habermas' recent work The Theory of Communicative Action.
Subject
  • Habermas, Jürgen
  • Habermas, Jürgen
  • Critical theory
  • Reason
  • Democracy > Philosophy
  • critical theories (dialectical critiques)
  • reason
  • critical theory (sociological concept)
  • Critical theory
  • Democracy > Philosophy
  • Reason
  • Democracy
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [121]-172) and index.
Contents
Ch. I. The Origins of The Theory of Inner Colonization -- Ch. II. The Frankfurt School: The Critique of Instrumental Rationality -- Ch. III. Habermas' Initial Reformulation of Critical Theory -- Ch. IV. The Colonization of The Lifeworld -- Ch. V. Towards A Critical Theory of Habermas -- Ch. VI. Thinking the Totality: Habermas and Post-Structuralism -- Ch. VII. Some Concluding Thoughts: Salvaging Critical Theory, Or The Necessity of Coalitions.
ISBN
  • 0761823638
  • 0761823646
  • 9780761823636
  • 9780761823643
LCCN
2002026731
OCLC
  • ocm50124420
  • 50124420
  • SCSB-9472610
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library