{"product_id":"critical-theory-current-state-and-future-prospects-9781571812360","title":"Critical Theory: Current State and Future","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tThe retirement of the distinguished philosopher Jürgen Habermas from his chair at the University of Frankfurt signalled an important caesura in the history of Critical Theory: the transition from the Habermasian project, to different forms of inquiry in the work of the next generation. This change-over happens at a time when it has become clear that Habermas's systematic exploration of communicative rationality has reached the point where both its achievements and its limitations had become evident. The essays collected in this volume address the problems connected with this transition, partly by returning to the insights of the first generation (Adorno and Benjamin), partly by focusing on questions raised by Habermas's work. Whatever the difference in the authors' positions, this collection gains its unity through their common interest in the significance and value of Critical Theory today and in its future as a philosophical project.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tPreface\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eSection I: Introduction\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 1.\u003c\/strong\u003e From the Eclipse of Reason to Communicative Rationality and Beyond\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003ePeter Uwe Hohendahl\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eSection II: Adorno and Benjamin: Reemerging Questions of Epistemology, History, and Aesthetics\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 2.\u003c\/strong\u003e Is Experience Still in Crisis? Reflections on a Frankfurt School Lament\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eMartin Jay\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 3.\u003c\/strong\u003e Mega Melancholia: Adorno’s Minima Moralia\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eEva Geulen\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 4.\u003c\/strong\u003e Stumbling Into Modernity: Body and Soma in Adorno\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eAndrew Hewitt\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 5.\u003c\/strong\u003e Aesthetic Politics Today: Walter Benjamin and Post-Fordist Culture\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eLutz Koepnick\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eSection III: In the Wake of Jürgen Habermas: Communicative Reason, Morality, and History\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 6.\u003c\/strong\u003e Critique and Self-Reflection: The Problematization of Morality\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eChristoph Menke\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 7.\u003c\/strong\u003e Dialogical Rationality and the Critique of Absolute Autonomy\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eBrian Jacobs\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 8.\u003c\/strong\u003e Civil Society in the Information Age: Beyond the Public Sphere\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eJodi Dean\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 9.\u003c\/strong\u003e Between Rights and Hospitality: Cosmopolitan Democracy, Nation, and Cultural Identity\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eMax Pensky\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 10.\u003c\/strong\u003e A Question of Grounding: Reconstruction and Strict Reflexion in Habermas and Apel\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003ePeter Dews\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eSection IV: A Contemporary Challenge to Critical Theory: Systems Theory\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 11.\u003c\/strong\u003e Critical Theory and Systems Theory\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eWolfram Malte Fues\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 12.\u003c\/strong\u003e Observations on Observations: Some Remarks on Adorno’s Aesthetic Theory\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eHarro Müller\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eSection V: Epilogue\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 13. \u003c\/strong\u003eNormativity and its Limits: Toward a Residual Ethics in Critical Theory\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eJaimey Fisher\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tBibliography\u003cbr\u003e \tIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berghahn Books, Incorporated","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041413529943,"sku":"9781571812360","price":26.55,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781571812360.jpg?v=1750950177","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/critical-theory-current-state-and-future-prospects-9781571812360","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}