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Reconsidering Habermas’s Colonization Thesis: A Critical Theory of Neoliberalism book cover

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Reconsidering Habermas’s Colonization Thesis A Critical Theory of Neoliberalism

By Roderick Condon Copyright 2025
240 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

240 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

240 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This book reconsiders Habermas’s critique of capitalism as a foundation for a critical theory of neoliberalism. Taking criticisms into account, the author refines and redevelops Habermas’s system-lifeworld paradigm in three parts, focusing on system, lifeworld, and communication. The exposition unfolds through a new synthesis and convergence, from within Habermas’s frame, of Axel Honneth, Niklas... Read more

Introduction  Part I: System  1. Habermas and Honneth: Theorizing the Economy  2. Reconsidering Habermas's Media Theory: Linguistic and Delinguistified Communication  3. System-Lifeworld Refined and Redeveloped: A Critical Theory of the Capitalist Economy  Part II: Lifeworld  4. The Colonization Thesis Expanded: Capitalism and Democracy as Evolutionary Processes  5. Modern Culture and Political Ideologies  Part III: Communication  6. From Colonization to Relinguistification: Reconsidering Habermas's Colonization Thesis  7. Colonization as Relinguistification: A Critical Theory of Neoliberalism

Biography

Roderick Condon is a teaching fellow in the Department of Sociology, School of Social Sciences and Philosophy at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.

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