Reason after its eclipse : on late critical theory

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Reason after its eclipse : on late critical theory

Martin Jay

(George L. Mosse series in modern European cultural and intellectual history)

University of Wisconsin Press, c2016

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Includes index

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: cloth ISBN 9780299306502

内容説明

Martin Jay tackles a question as old as Plato and still pressing today: what is reason, and what roles does and should it have in human endeavor? Applying the tools of intellectual history, he examines the overlapping, but not fully compatible, meanings that have accrued to the term "reason" over two millennia, homing in on moments of crisis, critique, and defense of reason. After surveying Western ideas of reason from the ancient Greeks through Kant, Hegel, and Marx, Jay engages at length with the ways leading theorists of the Frankfurt School-Horkheimer, Marcuse, Adorno, and most extensively Habermas-sought to salvage a viable concept of reason after its apparent eclipse. They despaired, in particular, over the decay in the modern world of reason into mere instrumental rationality. When reason becomes a technical tool of calculation separated from the values and norms central to daily life, then choices become grounded not in careful thought but in emotion and will-a mode of thinking embraced by fascist movements in the twentieth century. Is there a more robust idea of reason that can be defended as at once a philosophical concept, a ground of critique, and a norm for human emancipation? Jay explores at length the communicative rationality advocated by Habermas and considers the range of arguments, both pro and con, that have greeted his work.
巻冊次

: pbk ISBN 9780299306540

内容説明

Martin Jay tackles a question as old as Plato and still pressing today: what is reason, and what roles does and should it have in human endeavor? Applying the tools of intellectual history, he examines the overlapping, but not fully compatible, meanings that have accrued to the term ""reason"" over two millennia, homing in on moments of crisis, critique, and defense of reason. After surveying Western ideas of reason from the ancient Greeks through Kant, Hegel, and Marx, Jay engages at length with the ways leading theorists of the Frankfurt School—Horkheimer, Marcuse, Adorno, and most extensively Habermas—sought to salvage a viable concept of reason after its apparent eclipse. They despaired, in particular, over the decay in the modern world of reason into mere instrumental rationality. When reason becomes a technical tool of calculation separated from the values and norms central to daily life, then choices become grounded not in careful thought but in emotion and will—a mode of thinking embraced by fascist movements in the twentieth century. Is there a more robust idea of reason that can be defended as at once a philosophical concept, a ground of critique, and a norm for human emancipation? Jay explores at length the ommunicative rationality advocated by Habermas and considers the range of arguments, both pro and con, that have greeted his work.

目次

  • Preface Acknowledgments   Part I. The Ages of Reason 1 From the Greeks to the Enlightenment 2 Kant: Reason as Critique
  • the Critique of Reason 3 Hegel and Marx 4 Reason in Crisis   Part II. Reason’s Eclipse and Return 5 The Critique of Instrumental Reason: Horkheimer, Marcuse, and Adorno 6 Habermas and the Communicative Turn 7 Habermas and His Critics   Notes Index

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  • NII書誌ID(NCID)
    BB23946658
  • ISBN
    • 9780299306502
    • 9780299306540
  • LCCN
    2015010451
  • 出版国コード
    us
  • タイトル言語コード
    eng
  • 本文言語コード
    eng
  • 出版地
    Madison, Wis.
  • ページ数/冊数
    xv, 245 p.
  • 大きさ
    24 cm
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