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Rethinking the communicative turn : Adorno, Habermas, and the problem of communicative freedom / Martin Morris

Author
Morris, Martin, 1962-
Published
Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, [2001]
Copyright Date
©2001
Physical Description
1 online resource (x, 245 pages).
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Language Note
English.
Contents
The Frankfurt School and Habermas: A Snapshot View -- Conflicting Paradigmatic Issues -- Critical Theory and the Eclipse of 'Ideology': The Early Frankfurt Vision and Its Transformation -- The Program of Critical Theory and the Problem of 'Ideology' Critique -- The Dialectic of Enlightenment -- Habermas and the Critique of Reification -- The Habermasian Critique of Reification in Late Capitalism -- Capitalism and Social Crisis -- Real Abstraction and Ideology -- From the Pursuit of Truth to the Paradoxes of Aporia and Contradiction: Habermas and Adorno -- The Primacy of Language-Use -- Validity and the Ethical Force of Language-Use -- The Performative Contradiction in the Radical Critique of Domination -- A Concluding Note on Contradiction and Dialectic -- Recovering the Ethical and Political Force of Adorno's Aesthetic-Critical Theory -- The Priority of the Object and the Passion for Critique -- Language and the Subject: Adorno -- Art and the Recovery of Negativity and Non-Identity: Toward a Politics of the 'Mimetic Shudder'.
Summary
"Contrasting aesthetic versus linguistic centered visions for critical theory and the analysis of contemporary democratic theory and society, Martin Morris draws special attention to the concept of communicative freedom. He problematizes the paradigm shift within critical theory from the "philosophy of the subject" to the communicative action theory championed by Jurgen Habermas by opposing Habermas's reconstruction of critical theory to that of Theodor W. Adorno."--Jacket
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0791447979 (electronic bk.)
9780791447970 (electronic bk.)
0791447987 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780791447987 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0791491560
9780791491560
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-236) and index.
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