1st Edition

Kant, Critique and Politics

By Kimberly Hutchings Copyright 1996
232 Pages
by Routledge

232 Pages
by Routledge

Why does the ghost of Kant continue to haunt contemporary critical theory? Kant, Critique and Politics examines the influence of Kantian critique on the work of such major and diverse theorists as Habermas, Arendt, Foucault and Lyotard. It offers an entirely new reading of Kant, challenging the orthodox distinctions between modernist and postmodernist theorizing, by illuminating how Kant's... Read more
INTRODUCTION; Chapter 1 PHILOSOPHY AS CRITIQUE; Chapter 2 KANT's CRITICAL POLITICS; Chapter 3 HABERMAS AND THE POSSIBILITY OF CRITICAL THEORY; Chapter 4 ARENDT AND THE POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY OF JUDGEMENT; Chapter 5 FOUCAULT's CRITICAL ATTITUDE; Chapter 6 LYOTARD: PHRASING THE POLITICAL; Chapter 7 THE CRITIQUE OF INTERNATIONAL POLITICS; Chapter 8 FEMINIST CRITICAL THEORY CONCLUSION NOTES Bibliography Index;

Biography

Kimberly Hutchings is Lecturer in Political Theory at the University of Edinburgh.