Description
Book SynopsisAn introduction to the work of critical theorist Rahel Jaeggi for English-speaking audiences. Essays by scholars in Continental and analytic philosophy assess and critique her efforts to revitalize critical theory.
Table of ContentsContents
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction (Amy Allen and Eduardo Mendieta)
2. “Resistance to the Perpetual Danger of Relapse”: Moral Progress and Social Change (Rahel Jaeggi)
3. Decentered Social Selves: Interrogating Alienation in Conversation with Rahel Jaeggi (John Christman)
4. The Normativity of Forms of Life (Frederick Neuhouser)
5. In Search of the Negative in Rahel Jaeggi’s Kritik von Lebensformen (Max Pensky)
6. What’s Critical about Critical Theory?—Redux (Rocío Zambrana)
7. On the Politics of Forms of Life (Daniel Loick)
8. Forms of Life, Progress, and Social Struggle: On Rahel Jaeggi’s Critical Theory (Robin Celikates)
9. Progress, Normativity, and the Dynamics of Social Change: An Exchange between Rahel Jaeggi and Amy Allen (Conducted by Eva von Redecker)
10. Reply to my Critics (Rahel Jaeggi)
Contributors
Index
