{"product_id":"critical-theory-paperback-softback-9781557861733","title":"Critical Theory (Paperback \/ softback) 9781557861733","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eCritical Theory\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eDavid C. Hoy (Author), Thomas McCarthy (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781557861733, Wiley\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 27 July 1994\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e292 pages\u003cbr\u003e25 x 20 x 1.5 cm, 0.397 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePhilosophical 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. \u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction. \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: Philosophy and Critical Theory: A Reprise (Thomas McCarthy):\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. On the Idea of a Critical Theory and It's Relation to philosophy.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.1. Horkheimer on Historicism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.2. Traditional and Critical Theory.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.3. The Aufhebung of Philosophy.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. Reason in a Postmetaphysical Age.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.1. Deconstructionist Critiques of Reason.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.2. Communication and Idealization.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.3. Accountability and Autonomy.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.4. Discourse Ethics.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. On the Pragmatics of Communicative Reason.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.1. The Rational Properties of Practical Activities.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.2. Pragmatizing Communicative Rationality.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.3. On the Methodologies of Critical Social Theory.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.4. Multicultural Cosmopolitanism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: Critical Theory and Critical History (David Couzens Hoy):\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. A Deconstructive Reading of the Early Frankfurt School.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.1. Tensions in Horkheimer.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.2. Deferrals in Adorno.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.3. Anticipations of Poststructuralism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. Conflicting Versions of Critique: Foucault verses Habermas.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.1. Foucault and the Frankfurt School.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.2. Naturalizing Philosophy with Evolutionary Stories.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.3. From Hegel to Nietzsche.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.4. Genealogy's Critique of Habermas.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.5. The Critical Potential of History and of Theory.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. The Contingency of Universality: Critical Theory as Genealogical Hermeneutics.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.1. Genealogy For and Against.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.2. Habermas's Universalism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.3. Gadamer's Hermeneutical Pluralism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.4. Genealogical Hermeneutics.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III: For and Against:\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. Rejoinder to David Hoy (Thomas McCarthy).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.1. Pragmatism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.2. Genealogy.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.3. Hermeneutics.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.4. Pluralism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. Rejoinder to Thomas McCarthy (David Couzens Hoy).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.1. Rational Agents or Cultural Dopes.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.2. Local Solidarity or Universal Audience?.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.3. Pluralism or Concensus?.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.4. Identity in Difference?.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Philosophy [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Philosophy\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Philosophy%20%5BHP%5D%22\"\u003eHP\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52509144809752,"sku":"9781557861733","price":33.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781557861733.jpg?v=1786493888","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/critical-theory-paperback-softback-9781557861733","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}