The politics of critique
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The politics of critique
Macmillan, 1989
- pbk
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Originally published: Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press,1988
Includes index
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Description
The author makes use of the philosophy of Kant and Marx to argue that the philosophical problem of modern politics was not posed first in the 20th century, but lies in the phenomenon of revolution. This theory is explored with reference to the French Revolution and American War of Independence. He attempts to inherit the legacy of Kant and Marx and traces their 19th and 20th century heirs who sought a synthesis which could salvage critical philosophy and politics. Dick Howard has written many books on political philosophy, including "The Birth of American Political Thought", "The Marxian Legacy" and "The Development of the Marxian Dialectic".
Table of Contents
- Introduction: a simple intuition
- its conceptual formulation
- the simple intuition as modern. Part 1 Unmaking a case: Kant's political theory - the virtue of his vices - Marxist misreadings
- on the transformation of critique into dialectic - Marx's dilemma
- hermeneutics and critical theory - enlightenment as political
- why return to the American Revolution?. Part 2 Making a case: Kant's system and its politics
- restoring politics to political economy
- the origin and limits of philosophical politics - a Kantian proposal inspired by Fichte, Habermas's attempt to preserve the gains of modernity
- Rousseau and the origin of revolution. Part 3 The working critic: the politics of modernism - from Marx to Kant
- the origins of revolution
- reading US history as revolutionary.
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