Critique and Power
Subtitle: Recasting the Foucault/Habermas Debate
By: edited by Michael Kelly.
Series: Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 1994-06-06
Place of publication: Cambridge, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 413
ISBN-13: 9780262610933
Subjects: Sociology, Social Studies; Western philosophy, from c 1900 -; Power (Social sciences); Habermas, Jurgen; Philosophy; History & Surveys - Modern; Philosophy / General; General; Critical theory; Foucault, Michel,
Description: **The book juxtaposes key texts from Foucault and Habermas; it then adds a set of reactions and commentaries by theorists who have taken up the two alternative approaches to power and critique. The result is a guide for those seeking to understand and build on an unfinished debate between two of the 20th century’s most important philosophers.**

Which paradigm of critique—Foucault’s or Habermas’s—is philosophically and practically superior, especially with regard to the nature and role of power in contemporary society? In shaping this collection, Michael Kelly has sought to address this question in relation to the ethical, political, and social theory of the past two decades. Michel Foucault and Jurgen Habermas had only just begun to come to terms with one another’s work when Foucault died in 1984; they had even discussed the possibility of a formal debate on “Enlightenment” in the neutral arena of the United States. In the decade since, Habermas and his supporters have continued to respond to Foucault in various ways, but Foucault’s followers have not shown as strong an inclination to keep up his side of the dialogue. For this reason an invaluable exchange on the nature and limits of philosophy in the present age has never achieved its full potential. In this anthology Michael Kelly recasts the debate in a way that will open it up for further development. The book starts by juxtaposing key texts from the two philosophers; it then adds a set of reactions and commentaries by theorists who have taken up the two alternative approaches to power and critique. (Two of these essays were written especially for this volume.) The result is a guide for those seeking to understand and build on this important but unfinished debate.

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Table of contents: title: Sources and Acknowledgments
pagenum: vü; label: 1
title: Introduction, Michael Kelly
pagenum: 1; title: Part 1; label: 2
title: Two Lectures, Michel Foucault
pagenum: 17; label: 3
title: The Critique of Reason as an Unmasking of the Human Sciences: Michel Foucault, Jürgen Habermas
pagenum: 47; label: 4
title: Some Questions Concerning the Theory of Power: Foucault Again, Jürgen Habermas
pagenum: 79; label: 5
title: Critical Theory/Intellectual History, Michel Foucault
pagenum: 109; label: 6
title: The Art of Telling the Truth, Michel Foucault
pagenum: 139; label: 7
title: Taking Aim at the Heart of the Present: On Foucault’s Lecture on Kant’s What Is Enlightenment? – Jürgen Habermas
pagenum: 149; title: Part II; label: 8
title: Foucault’s Theory of Society: A Systems-Theoretic Dissolution of the Dialectic of Enlightenment, Axel Honneth
pagenum: 157; label: 9
title: Michel Foucault: A “Young Conservative”? – Nancy Fraser
pagenum: 185; label: 10
title: Foucault: Critique as a Philosophic Ethos, Richard Bernstein
pagenum: 211; label: 11
title: The Critique of Impure Reason: Foucault and the Frankfurt School, Thomas McCarthy
pagenum: 243; label: 12
title: Foucault’s Enlightenment: Critique, Revolution, and the Fashioning of the Self, James Schmidt and Thomas E. Wartenberg
pagenum: 283; label: 13
title: Foldings, or the Inside of Thought (Subjectivation), Gilles Deleuze
pagenum: 315; label: 14
title: Foucault and Feminism: A Critical Reappraisal, Jana Sawicki
pagenum: 347; label: 15
title: Foucault, Habermas, and the Self-Referentiality of Critique, Michael Kelly
pagenum: 365; title: Index
pagenum: 401