Rousseau and critical theory
By: by Alessandro Ferrara
Series: Brill research perspectives. Critical theory -- issue 1:1 (2016); Brill research perspectives -- issue 1:1.
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Leiden
Language: eng
Number of pages: 55
ISBN-13: 9789004356375
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Critical theory
Description: "In Rousseau and critical theory, Alessandro Ferrara argues that among the modern philosophers who have shaped the world we inhabit, Rousseau is the one to whom we owe the idea that identity can be a source of normativity (moral and political) and that an identity's potential for playing such a role rests on its capacity for being authentic. This normative idea of authenticity brings unity to Rousseau's reflections on the negative effects of the social order, on the just political order, on education, and more generally, on ethics. It is also shown to contain important teachings for contemporary Critical Theory, contemporary views of self-constitution (Korsgaard, Frankfurt and Larmore), and contemporary political philosophy."--Abstract.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 51-55).
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: Rousseau and Critical Theory  -- Alessandro Ferrara; title: Abstract --; title: Keywords --; title: Introduction -- -- pt. 1; title: Authenticity as the Keystone of Rousseau's Work -- -- pt. 2; title: Rousseau and Critical Theory -- -- 2.1.; title: Rousseauian Traces in Horkheimer, Adorno and Marcuse -- -- 2.2.; title: Rousseau and Habermas -- -- 2.3.; title: Rousseau and Honneth -- -- 2.4.; title: Other Critical Voices -- -- pt. 3; title: The Rousseauian Legacy in the 21st Century -- -- 3.1.; title: Rousseau's Three Insights into Self-Constitution -- -- i).; title: Self-Constitution is a Practical Relation -- -- ii).; title: Self-Constitution does not Entail a Total Plasticity of Self-Identity -- -- iii).; title: Coherence is not the Sole Dimension of a Fulfilled Self-Identity -- -- 3.2.; title: Politics and the Normativity of Identity.