{"product_id":"critical-theory-isbn-9781557861733","title":"Critical Theory","description":"Philosophical 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  Introduction. \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  \u003cb\u003eDavid Couzens Hoy\u003c\/b\u003e taught at Princeton Columbia, and Yale before going to the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he is Professor of Philosophy and of the History of Consiousness graduate program. He edited \u003ci\u003eFoucault: A Critical Reader\u003c\/i\u003e (Blackwell) and has authored, in addition to many essays on modern and postmodern European philosophers, a book on hermeneutics entitled \u003ci\u003eThe Critical Circle\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThomas McCarthy\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Philosophy and John Shaffer Professor in the Humanities at Northwestern University. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Critical Theory of Jurgen Habermas\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eIdeals and Illusions\u003c\/i\u003e, and is the general editor of the series \u003ci\u003eStudies in Contemporary German Social Thought\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e  Philosophical 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","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47989007548645,"sku":"NP9781557861733","price":42.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781557861733.jpg?v=1761782407","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/critical-theory-isbn-9781557861733","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}