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Reconciliation and reification : freedom's semblance and actuality from Hegel to contemporary critical theory / Todd Hedrick

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2019

1 online resource.

Englisch

Previously issued in print: 2018. - Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on March 13, 2019)

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Erscheint auch als: Reconciliation and reification / Hedrick, Todd (Druck-Ausgabe)

978-0-19-063405-6 (ebook)

978-0-19-063402-5 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

OCoLC: 1120141564     

Elektronische Ressource: Zugang über Resolving-System (Lizenzangabe: Lizenzpflichtig)

Digital Object Identifier (DOI): 10.1093/oso/9780190634025.001.0001

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LOC-SH: Critical theory ; Reconciliation ; Reification ; Social change ; Liberty

The critical theory tradition has, since its inception, sought to distinguish its perspective on society from more purely descriptive or normative approaches by maintaining that persons have a deep-seated interest in the free development of their personality-an interest that can only be realized in and through the rational organization of society, but which is systematically stymied by existing society. Yet it has struggled to specify this emancipatory interest in a way that avoids being either excessively utopian or overly accommodating to existing society. Despite the fact that Hegel's concept of reconciliation is normally thought to run aground on the latter horn of this dilemma, this text argues that reconciliation is the best available conceptualization of this emancipatory interest.