Title: Foucault contra Habermas : recasting the dialogue between genealogy and critical theory /
Authors: Ashenden, Samantha; Owen, David, 1964-
Publisher: SAGE,
Year: 1999
Subjects: Foucault, Michel, Contributions in social sciences.; Habermas, Jürgen Contributions in social sciences.; Foucault, Michel,; Habermas, Jürgen; Social sciences Philosophy; Genealogy (Philosophy); Critical theory
Abstract: "In a detailed reply to the Philosophical Discourse of Modernity and critical theory, this volume explains the difference between Habermas' philosophical practice of critique and Foucault's genealogy, between the analytics of truth and the politics of truth. Many of the most difficult arguments in the exchange - understanding the history of the present; the function of normative criticism; the relation between relativism and universalism - are subject to critical analysis. The contributors also discuss the ethics of dialogue; the practice of criticism, the politics of recognition; and the function of civil society and democracy." "Comprising the work of an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars, this accessible book will be essential reading for students of social theory, politics and philosophy."--BOOK JACKET.
Contents: Introduction : Foucault, Habermas and the politics of critique / Samantha Ashenden and David Owen -- Orientation and enlightenment : an essay on critique and genealogy / David Owen -- Critical spirituality : on ethics and politics in the later Foucault / Thomas Osborne -- Pas de deux : Habermas and Foucault in genealogical communication / Daniel W. Conway -- To think and act differently : Foucault's four reciprocal objections to Habermas' theory / Jame Tully -- Questions of criticism : Habermas and Foucault on civil society and resistance / Samantha Ashenden -- Normalising democracy : Foucault and Habermas on democracy, liberalism and law / Mitchell Dean -- The agony and the ecstasy : Foucault, Habermas and the problem of recognition / Simon Thompson.