Pathologies of reason
Subtitle: on the legacy of critical theory
By: Axel Honneth ; translated by James Ingram and others.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9780231146265; 9780231518376
Subjects: Critical theory -- History; Social sciences -- Reseach -- History
Work titles: Pathologien der Vernunft.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.         ).
Table of contents: title: The irreducibility of progress : Kant's account of the relationship between morality and history; title: A social pathology of reason : on the intellectual legacy of critical theory; title: Reconstructive social criticism with a genealogical proviso : on the idea of "critique" in the Frankfurt School; title: A physiognomy of the capitalist form of life : a sketch of Adorno's social theory; title: Performing justice : Adorno's introduction to negative dialectics; title: Saving the sacred with a philosophy of history : on Benjamin's "critique of violence"; title: Appropriating freedom : Freud's conception of individual self-relation; title: "Anxiety and politics" : the strengths and weaknesses of Franz Neumann's diagnosis of a social pathology; title: Democracy and inner freedom : Alexander Mitscherlich's contribution to critical social theory; title: Dissonances of communicative reason : Albrecht Wellmer and critical theory; title: Appendix : idiosyncrasy as a tool of knowledge : social criticism in the age of the normalized intellectual.