Title: Critique, norm, and utopia :
Authors: Benhabib, Seyla.
Date: 1986
Publisher: Columbia University Press,
Physical description: xiii, 455 pages ; 24 cm
Language: English
LC classification: B
Contents: Introduction: The critical theory of society: Between practical philosophy and social science -- Part I: The origins of critique -- Chapter One: The origins of Immanent critique -- Hegelian origins -- Hegel's methodological and normative critique of natural right theories -- Marxian transformation: Critique of mere criticism in the pre-1844 period -- Chapter Two: The origins of defetishizing critique -- Hegelian origins: The phenomenological method -- The presuppositions of the phenomenological method: Constitutive activity as labor -- The anthropological transformation of the phenomenological method in the 1844 manuscripts -- Chapter Three: Integrating crisis: Autonomy and ethical life -- Hegel's critique of Kant's moral philosophy -- Expressivist action and the transsubjective ideal of freedom -- Integrating crisis: Healing the wounds of the ethical -- Chapter Four: Critique as crisis theory: Autonomy and capitalism -- The three levels of critique in Marx's Capital --^ Fetishism and emancipation -- Systemic and lived crisis: The unresolved tension -- Concluding systematic considerations to Part I: Self-actualizing activity and the philosophy of the subject -- Part II: The transformation of critique -- Chapter Five: The critique of instrumental reason -- From the critique of political economy to the critique of instrumental reason -- The critique of instrumental reason and its aporias -- Chapter Six: Autonomy as mimetic reconciliation -- Autonomy and self-preservation (Selbsterhaltung) -- Autonomy and reconciliation with the "Other" -- Concluding systematic considerations: The critique of instrumental reason and the philosophy of the subject -- Chapter Seven: The critique of functionalist reason -- Communicative action and the paradox of rationalization -- Communicative reason and the integrity of modernity -- Chapter Eight: Toward a communicative ethics and autonomy -- The program of communicative ethics --^ The Hegelian objection: A contemporary reformulation -- Communicative autonomy and utopia -- Concluding reflections: Beyond the philosophy of the subject.
Notes: Includes index.
Subject headings (LCSH): Critical theory.; Criticism (Philosophy); Ethics.