ISBN:
9781438480374
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (382 pages)
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DDC:
142
Keywords:
Critical theory
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Abstract:
Presents a new way of thinking about fundamental political concepts such as freedom, justice, and the common good.
Abstract:
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Cybernetic Society and the Crisis of Modernity -- Part I In the Courtyard of Babel: Postmetaphysics and the Failure of Critical Judgment -- 1. A Critique of the Judgment Paradigm in Contemporary Political Philosophy -- The Dissolution of Political Judgment in Modern Society -- An Epistemic Hall of Mirrors -- Intersubjectivity and Discourse -- The Revolt against Ontology -- Toward a Critical Social Metaphysics -- 2. Hannah Arendt's Reconstruction of Political Judgment -- The Flight from the Real -- Truth, Power, and Politics -- Deliberation and Its Discontents -- Democracy Misdirected -- Critical Judgment and Radical Politics -- 3. The Discursive Fallacy: Language and Power in Practical Reason -- In Search of Modern Democracy -- The Pragmatist Turn in Contemporary Critical Theory -- The Nature of Constitutive Social Power -- Two Spheres of Moral Semantics -- Constitutive Power, Moral Cognition, and Linguistic Communication -- Reification through the Implicit Validity of Norms -- A Critique of Justificatory Reason -- 4. Recognition Theory and the Obfuscation of Critique -- Recognition and Critical Theory -- The Contours of Power and Domination -- Recognition without Social Ontology -- Recognition and Social Pathology: Fromm versus Honneth -- Resuscitating Critical Judgment: The Ontological Point of View -- Part II Beyond Babel Social Ontology and the Reconstruction of Critical Reason -- 5. Recovering the Ontological Infrastructure of Political Judgment -- Aristotle's Social Ontology and the Structure of Political Judgment -- Inequality and Rousseau's Ontological Account of Social Pathology -- Hegel and the Metaphysics of Modern Ethical Life -- Marx, Labor, and the Ontology of Social Forms -- 6. The Properties and Modes of Critical Social Ontology -- The Concept of Social Ontology.
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