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Critique, Norm and Utopia:

A Study of the Foundations of Critical Theory
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Columbia University Press, 1986 - Philosophy - 455 pages

Displaying an impressive command of complex materials, Seyla Benhabib reconstructs the history of theories from a systematic point of view and examines the origins and transformations of the concept of critique from the works of Hegel to Habermas. Through investigating the model of the philosophy of the subject, she pursues the question of how Hegel´s critiques might be useful for reforumulating the foundations of critical social theory.

  

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I totally concur with Peter Gathje's review. I had this book on my shelf for years without reading it. 14 years later I finally got around to it. And it is a *fantastic* discussion and assessment of ... Read full review

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This is one the best interpretations of Critical Theory and Habermas' approach to critical theory going. I used this text as an interpretative approach to understanding several of Habermas' works. It is accessible, straighforward and one of the better books available on critical theory. Read full review

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Contents

Chapter One The Origins of Immanent Critique
19
Chapter Two The Origins of Defetishizing Critique
44
Transsubjective Ideal of Freedom
84
Chapter Five The Critique of Instrumental Reason
147
Chapter Six Autonomy as Mimetic Reconciliation
186
The Critique of Instrumental Reason
213
Chapter Seven The Critique of Functionalist Reason
224
Chapter Eight Toward a Communicative Ethics
279
Reformulation
297
Notes
355
Bibliography
411
Index
435
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Modernity in Frankfurt
139. Review essay. Modernity in Frankfurt. Must a history of philosophy be a philosophy of history? A discussion of Seyla Benhabib, ...
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Kwame Anthony Appiah. Seyla Benhabib. Iris Marion Young. Nancy Fraser. Justice, Governance, Cosmopolitanism,. and the Politics of Difference ...
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Critical Theory in Feminism
Critique, Norm and Utopia: A Study of the Foundations of Critical Theory. Columbia Univ. Press, 1986. Benhabib, Seyla and Maurizio Passerin d'Entreves, ed. ...
www.cddc.vt.edu/ feminism/ cri.html

Bat-Ami Bar On - Politics and Prioritization of Evil - Hypatia 19:4
See discussion by Seyla Benhabib in Critique, Norm, and Utopia: A Study of the Foundations of Critical Theory. For another version of the comment see ...
muse.jhu.edu/ journals/ hypatia/ v019/ 19.4bar_on.html

Wrong Turn: Notes towards a Critique of Habermasian Liberalism by ...
Wrong Turn: Notes towards a Critique of Habermasian Liberalism. Part III The Colonisation Thesis and the Public Sphere ...
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Monadic Marxism: A Critique of Elster's Methodological ...
Critique, norm, and utopia: A study of the foundations of critical theory. New York: Columbia University Press. Berger, Johannes, and Claus Offe. 1982. ...
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Political Science 214 MARXIST POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY Section 564422 ...
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About the author (1986)

Charles Gore is an artist and lecturer in the History of African Art at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS).

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