The Handbook of Critical Theory

ISBN: 978-0-631-18381-5

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440 pages

May 1999, Wiley-Blackwell

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List of Contributors.

Acknowledgments.

Editor's Introduction: David M. Rasmussen (Boston College).

Part I: Philosophy and History: .

1. Critical Theory and Philosophy: David M. Rasmussen (Boston College).

2. Urban Flights: The Institute of Social Research Between Frankfurt and New York: Martin Jay (University of California, Berkeley).

3. Critical Theory and Tragic Knowledge: Christoph Menke.

Part II: Social Science, Discourse Ethics, and Justice:.

4. Critical Theory and Empirical Research: Hauke Brunkhorst (Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut, Essen).

5. The Communicative Paradigm in Moral Theory: Alessandro Ferrara (Universita Degli Studi di Roma).

6. Justice, Reason, and Critique: Basic Concepts of Critical Theory: Rainer Forst (Freie Universitat Berlin).

Part III: Law and Democracy: .

7. Habermas's Discourse Theory of Law and Democracy: An Overview of the Argument: William Rehg (St. Louis University).

8. Critical Theory and Democracy: James Bohman (St. Louis University). Part IV: Civil Society and Autonomy:.

9. Civil Society: Beyond the Public Sphere: Jodi Dean (Hobart and William Smith Colleges).

10. Public Reason and Personal Autonomy: Kenneth Baynes (SUNY, Stonybrook).

Part V: Pragmatics, Psychoanalysis, and Aesthetics: .

11. Karl-Otto Apel's Contribution to Critical Theory: Matthias Kettner (Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut, Essen and Johann-Wolfgang-Croethe University, Frankfurt).

12. Fantasy and Critique: Some Thoughts on Freud and the Frankfurt School: Joel Whitebook (New School for Social Research).

13. Theodor W. Adorno: Aesthetic Constructivism and a Negative Ethic of The Non-Forfeited Life: Hauke Brunkhorst (Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut, Essen).

Part VI: Postmodernism, Critique and The Pathology of The Social: 14. Critical Theory and Postmodernism: On the Interplay of Ethics, Aesthetics and Utopia in Critical Theory: Seyla Benhabib (Harvard University and Center for European Studies).

15. Critical Theory and Postmodernism: A Response to David Hoy: Thomas McCarthy (Northwestern University).

16. Pathologies of the Social: The Past and Present of Social Philosophy: Axel Honneth (Freie Universitat Berlin).

Part VII: Bibliography:.

17. A Bibliography of Critical Theory: James Swindal (John Carrol University).

Index.