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1 online resource (262 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Recovering Ethical Life; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Critical Theory -- The Very Idea: Reflections on Nihilism and Domination; Critique and praxis; Domination and nihilism; 2 Liberty and the Ideal Speech Situation; The public sphere and the scientization of politics; Labour and interaction; Distorted communication; The ideal speech situation; Discourse and autonomy; A kingdom of ends?; 3 Self-Knowledge as Praxis: Narrative and Narration in Psychoanalysis; Depth hermeneutics: representation or interpretation? |
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Narrative reason: theory and therapyEmotion, thought and therapy; A passion for critique; An epistemological interlude: creation and discovery; The causality of fate and tragedy; 4 Moral Norms and Ethical Identities: On the Linguistification of the Sacred; Citizenship, double men and nihilism; Social integration and obligation: from belief to will?; Disenchantment and the unlimited communication community; Seeking self-reassurance; A community of citizens; 5 The Generalized Other, Concrete Others; The philosophy of the subject; Hegel v. Habermas; Desire: public or private? |
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Art, or the politics of desireThe concrete other and nonidentity; Risk: praxis without foundations; Reconciliation; 6 The Causality of Fate: On Modernity and Modernism; A suppressed dialectic; From fallibilism to modernism; Modernism and local reason; Reason: divided and distorted; Recognition and communication; Performative contradictions, lifeworld solidarities; Universality: procedural, critical and substantial; 7 Language, World-Disclosure and Judgment; Meaning or validity? Romanticism or liberalism?; Communicative reason as inherited thought; Creation, world-disclosure and justification |
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Rational transfigurations: a question of judgmentNegativity and the future of critical theory; Notes; Index |
| Summary |
Reading across the whole range of Habermas' work, this book traces the development of the theory of communicative reason from its inception to its defence against postmodernism. Bernstein's analyses are always problem centred and thematic rather than textual, making this a major contribution to the critical literature on Habermas |
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Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781136160394 |
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1136160396 |
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