Critical theory : current state and future prospects /: current state and future prospects. (2001)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Peter Uwe Hohendahl & Jaimey Fisher.
• Editors: Hohendahl, Peter Uwe; Fisher, Jaimey
• Contents: Preface Section I: Introduction Chapter 1. From the Eclipse of Reason to Communicative Rationality and Beyond; Peter Uwe Hohendahl Section II: Adorno and Benjamin: Reemerging Questions of Epistemology, History, and Aesthetics Chapter 2. Is Experience Still in Crisis? Reflections on a Frankfurt School Lament; Martin Jay Chapter 3. Mega Melancholia: Adorno's Minima Moralia; Eva Geulen Chapter 4. Stumbling Into Modernity: Body and Soma in Adorno; Andrew Hewitt Chapter 5. Aesthetic Politics Today: Walter Benjamin and Post-Fordist Culture; Lutz Koepnick Section III: In the Wake of Jürgen Habermas: Communicative Reason, Morality, and History Chapter 6. Critique and Self-Reflection: The Problematization of Morality; Christoph Menke Chapter 7. Dialogical Rationality and the Critique of Absolute Autonomy; Brian Jacobs Chapter 8. Civil Society in the Information Age: Beyond the Public Sphere; Jodi Dean Chapter 9. Between Rights and Hospitality: Cosmopolitan Democracy, Nation, and Cultural Identity; Max Pensky Chapter 10. A Question of Grounding: Reconstruction and Strict Reflexion in Habermas and Apel; Peter Dews Section IV: A Contemporary Challenge to Critical Theory: Systems Theory Chapter 11. Critical Theory and Systems Theory; Wolfram Malte Fues Chapter 12. Observations on Observations: Some Remarks on Adorno's Aesthetic Theory; Harro Müller Section V: Epilogue Chapter 13. Normativity and its Limits: Toward a Residual Ethics in Critical Theory; Jaimey Fisher Bibliography; Index
• Publisher Details: New York, NY : Berghahn Books
• Publication Date: 2001
• Extent: 1 online resource (328 pages)
• Subjects: 142; Critical theory -- Congresses; PHILOSOPHY -- Criticism; PHILOSOPHY -- Movements -- Critical Theory; PHILOSOPHY -- Movements -- Existentialism; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General; Critical theory; Electronic books; Conference papers and proceedings
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781782388562; 1782388567
• Related ISBNs: 9781571812353; 1571812350
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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