Ideals and Illusions: On Reconstruction and Deconstruction in Contemporary Critical Theory
ISBN-13:
9780262132688
ISBN-10:
0262132680
Edition:
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Author:
Thomas McCarthy
Publication date:
1991
Publisher:
Mit Pr
Format:
Hardcover
264 pages
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ISBN-13:
9780262132688
ISBN-10:
0262132680
Edition:
Text is Free of Markings
Author:
Thomas McCarthy
Publication date:
1991
Publisher:
Mit Pr
Format:
Hardcover
264 pages
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Ideals and Illusions: On Reconstruction and Deconstruction in Contemporary Critical Theory (ISBN-13: 9780262132688 and ISBN-10: 0262132680), written by authors
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These lucid and closely reasoned studies of the thought of Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Jürgen Habermas, and Richard Rorty provide a coherent analysis of major pathways in recent critical theory. They defend a position analogous to Kant's - that ideas of reason are both unavoidable presuppositions of thought that have to be carefully reconstructed and persistent sources of illusions that have to be repeatedly deconstructed. McCarthy examines the critique of impure reason from the complementary viewpoints of the attackers and defenders of Enlightenment rationality. He first analyzes the work of Rorty, Foucault, and Derrida to determine what these radical critics have contributed to our understanding of reason and where they have gone wrong. He explores Habermas's theory of communicative rationality, focusing on the attempt to go beyond hermeneutics, the incorporation of systems theory, the implications of discourse ethics for our understanding of political debate and collective decision making, and the relation of political theology to critical social theory. The analysis and assessment of Habermas's recent work in Ideals and Illusions serves as a sequel to McCarthy's earlier study The Critical Theory of Jürgen Habermas.
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