1st Edition
Discourse, Desire, and Fantasy in Jurgen Habermas' Critical Theory
By Kenneth MacKendrick
Copyright 2008
256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book argues that Jürgen Habermas’ critical theory can be productively developed by incorporating a wider understanding of fantasy and imagination as part of its conception of communicative rationality and communicative pathologies. Given that meaning is generated both linguistically and performatively, MacKendrick argues that desire and fantasy must be taken into consideration as... Read more
Acknowledgments, Introduction, Chapter One: The Project of Critical Theory: An Introduction to the Thought of Horkheimer, Adorno, and Marcuse, Chapter Two: Knowledge, Interests, Nature: Jürgen Habermas’ Early Writings, Chapter Three: Critical Theory and Hermeneutics, Chapter Four: Of Reason and Revelation: Toward a Post-Hermeneutic Critical Theory, Chapter Five: The Struggle for Recognition: Jürgen Habermas, Axel Honneth, and Jessica Benjamin, Chapter Six: Critique of Communicative Reason, Notes
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Kenneth MacKendrick
