Critical Theory
By: David Couzens Hoy and Thomas McCarthy.
Contributors: McCarthy, Thomas A.
Series: Great Debates in Philosophy
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing
Published: 1994-09
Place of publication: Oxford, UK; Cambridge, Mass., USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9781557861733; 9781557861726
Copyright date: 1994
Subjects: Critical theory.; Reason.
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.

In 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.

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Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction
pagenum: 1; title: Part I: Philosophy and Critical Theory: A Reprise (Thomas McCarthy)
pagenum: 5; label: 1.
title: On the Idea of a Critical Theory and It’s Relation to philosophy
pagenum: 7; label: 1.1.
title: Horkheimer on Historicism
pagenum: 9; label: 1.2.
title: Traditional and Critical Theory
pagenum: 13; label: 1.3.
title: The Aufhebung of Philosophy
pagenum: 22; label: 2.
title: Reason in a Postmetaphysical Age
pagenum: 31; label: 2.1.
title: Deconstructionist Critiques of Reason
pagenum: 32; label: 2.2.
title: Communication and Idealization
pagenum: 38; label: 2.3.
title: Accountability and Autonomy
pagenum: 42; label: 2.4.
title: Discourse Ethics
pagenum: 47; label: 3.
title: On the Pragmatics of Communicative Reason
pagenum: 63; label: 3.1.
title: The Rational Properties of Practical Activities
pagenum: 64; label: 3.2.
title: Pragmatizing Communicative Rationality
pagenum: 74; label: 3.3.
title: On the Methodologies of Critical Social Theory
pagenum: 81; label: 3.4.
title: Multicultural Cosmopolitanism
pagenum: 86; title: Part II: Critical Theory and Critical History (David Couzens Hoy)
pagenum: 101; label: 4.
title: A Deconstructive Reading of the Early Frankfurt School
pagenum: 103; label: 4.1.
title: Tensions in Horkheimer
pagenum: 103; label: 4.2.
title: Deferrals in Adorno
pagenum: 114; label: 4.3.
title: Anticipations of Poststructuralism
pagenum: 119; label: 5.
title: Conflicting Versions of Critique: Foucault verses Habermas
pagenum: 144; label: 5.1.
title: Foucault and the Frankfurt School
pagenum: 144; label: 5.2.
title: Naturalizing Philosophy with Evolutionary Stories
pagenum: 149; label: 5.3.
title: From Hegel to Nietzsche
pagenum: 155; label: 5.4.
title: Genealogy’s Critique of Habermas
pagenum: 158; label: 5.5.
title: The Critical Potential of History and of Theory
pagenum: 164; label: 6.
title: The Contingency of Universality: Critical Theory as Genealogical Hermeneutics
pagenum: 172; label: 6.1.
title: Genealogy For and Against
pagenum: 172; label: 6.2.
title: Habermas’s Universalism
pagenum: 177; label: 6.3.
title: Gadamer’s Hermeneutical Pluralism
pagenum: 188; label: 6.4.
title: Genealogical Hermeneutics
pagenum: 200; title: Part III: For and Against
pagenum: 215; label: 7.
title: Rejoinder to David Hoy (Thomas McCarthy)
pagenum: 217; label: 7.1.
title: Pragmatism
pagenum: 217; label: 7.2.
title: Genealogy
pagenum: 224; label: 7.3.
title: Hermeneutics
pagenum: 230; label: 7.4.
title: Pluralism
pagenum: 238; label: 8.
title: Rejoinder to Thomas McCarthy (David Couzens Hoy)
pagenum: 249; label: 8.1.
title: Rational Agents or Cultural Dopes
pagenum: 250; label: 8.2.
title: Local Solidarity or Universal Audience?
pagenum: 253; label: 8.3.
title: Pluralism or Concensus?
pagenum: 263; label: 8.4.
title: Identity in Difference?
pagenum: 266; title: Index
pagenum: 274