Critique of forms of life /
Jaeggi, Rahel,author.
Cronin, Ciaran,translator.
"This book was originally published as Kritik von Lebensformen © Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin 2014"--Title page verso.
Translated from the German.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-381) and index.
Introduction : Against "ethical abstinence" -- Part I. An ensemble of practices : forms of life as social formations. What is a form of life? -- Form of life : concept and phenomenon -- Duration, depth, scope -- A modular concept of forms of life -- Forms of life as inert ensembles of practices -- What are (social) practices? -- The interconnected character of practices -- The moment of inertia -- Practice, criticism, reflection -- Part II. Solutions to problems : forms of life as normatively constituted formations. The normativity of forms of life -- Norms and normativity -- Modes of normativity -- Three types of norm justification -- Lack of correspondence with its concept -- Forms of life as problem-solving entities -- What are problems? -- Given or made? The problem with problems -- Attempts at problem-solving : Hegel's theory of the family -- Crises of problem-solving -- Second order problems -- Part III. Forms of criticism. What is internal criticism? -- External and internal criticism -- The strategy of internal criticism -- Advantages and limits of internal criticism -- "To find the new world through criticism of the old one" : immanent criticism -- Criticism of a new type -- The strategy of immanent criticism -- Potentials and difficulties -- Part IV. The dynamics of crisis and the rationality of social change. Successful and failed learning processes -- Change, development, learning, progress -- Are forms of life capable of learning? -- Deficient learning processes -- Why does history matter? -- Crisis-induced transformations : Dewey, MacIntyre, Hegel -- Social change as experimental problem-solving -- The dynamics of traditions -- History as a dialectical learning process -- Problem or contradiction? -- Problems as indeterminateness -- Crisis as a break in continuity -- Crisis as dialectical contradiction -- The problem with contradiction -- The dynamics of learning processes -- Problem-solving as an experimental learning process -- The dynamics of traditions -- The source of progress and of degeneration -- A dialectical-pragmatist understanding of learning processes -- Conclusion : A critical theory of criticism of forms of life.
Social sciences
Social history
Social change
Social ethics.
Criticism (Philosophy)
Criticism (Philosophy)
Social ethics.
Social history
Social sciences
Kritik von Lebensformen.