Critical Theory: Current State and Future Prospects

Published by Berghahn Books 2001

Critical Theory

Current State and Future Prospects

Edited by: Peter Uwe Hohendahl and Jaimey Fisher

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781782388562

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The retirement of the distinguished philosopher Jürgen Habermas from his chair at the University of Frankfurt signalled an important caesura in the history of Critical Theory: the transition from the Habermasian project, to different forms of inquiry in the work of the next generation. This change-over happens at a time when it has become clear that Habermas's systematic exploration of communicative rationality has reached the point where both its achievements and its limitations had become evident. The essays collected in this volume address the problems connected with this transition, partly by returning to the insights of the first generation (Adorno and Benjamin), partly by focusing on questions raised by Habermas's work. Whatever the difference in the authors' positions, this collection gains its unity through their common interest in the significance and value of Critical Theory today and in its future as a philosophical project.

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Peter Uwe Hohendahl is Schurman Professor of German and Comparative Literature at Cornell University and Director of the Institute for German Cultural Studies.

Jaimey Fisher is an Assistant Professor of German at Tulane University.

Peter Uwe Hohendahl is Schurman Professor of German and Comparative Literature at Cornell University and Director of the Institute for German Cultural Studies.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	viii
Section I: Introduction
Chapter 1 From the Eclipse of Reason to Communicative Rationality and Beyond Peter Uwe Hohendahl Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
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 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	31
Chapter 3 Mega Melancholia: Adorno’s Minima Moralia Eva Geulen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	49
Chapter 4 Stumbling Into Modernity: Body and Soma in Adorno Andrew Hewitt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	69
Chapter 5 Aesthetic Politics Today: Walter Benjamin and Post-Fordist Culture Lutz Koepnick Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	94
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 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	119
Chapter 7 Dialogical Rationality and the Critique of Absolute Autonomy Brian Jacobs Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	139
Chapter 8 Civil Society in the Information Age: Beyond the Public Sphere Jodi Dean Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	154
Chapter 9 Between Rights and Hospitality: Cosmopolitan Democracy, Nation, and Cultural Identity Max Pensky Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	175
Chapter 10 A Question of Grounding: Reconstruction and Strict Reflexion in Habermas and Apel Peter Dews Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	205
Section IV: A Contemporary Challenge to Critical Theory: Systems Theory
Chapter 11 Critical Theory and Systems Theory Wolfram Malte Fues Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	229
Chapter 12 Observations on Observations: Some Remarks on Adorno’s Aesthetic Theory Harro Müller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	248
Section V: Epilogue
Chapter 13 Normativity and its Limits: Toward a Residual Ethics in Critical Theory Jaimey Fisher Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	263
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	287
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	301

Language: English
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 208
Keywords: Cultural Studies (General)

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Published: June 1, 2001
ISBN: 9781782388562