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Book SynopsisRefiguring Critical Theory offers some thoughts about the nature of democracy and the possibilities of individual and collective self-determination. The text traces theories of the relationship between being and consciousness from Marx through Lukacs and the Frankfurt School to Habermas'' recent work The Theory of Communicative Action. J.Craig Hanks argues that an analysis of Habermas'' work will be incomplete if we do not understand it as growing out of a tradition of radical political thinking (from Hegel through Marx and the early Critical Theorists).
Table of ContentsChapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 Acknowledgments Chapter 3 The Origins of the Theory of Inner Colonization Chapter 4 The Frankfurt School: The Critique of Instrumental Rationality Chapter 5 Habermas' Initial Reformulation of Critical Theory Chapter 6 The Colonization of the Lifeworld Chapter 7 Towards a Critical Theory of Habermas Chapter 8 Thinking the Totality: Habermas and Post-Structuralism Chapter 9 Some Concluding Thoughts: Salvaging Critical Theory, or the Necessity of Coalitions Chapter 10 Notes Chapter 11 Bibliography Chapter 12 Index Chapter 13 About the Author
