Reason After Its Eclipse: On Late Critical Theory - Couverture souple

Jay, Martin

 
9780299306540: Reason After Its Eclipse: On Late Critical Theory
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ISBN 10 : 0299306542 ISBN 13 : 9780299306540
Editeur : University of Wisconsin Press, 2017

Synopsis

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.

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À propos de l?auteur

Martin Jay is the Sidney Hellman Ehrman Professor Emeritus of History at the University of California, Berkeley. His many books include The Dialectical Imagination, Marxism and Totality, and The Virtues of Mendacity.

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Éditeur
University of Wisconsin Press
Date d'édition
2017
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0299306542
ISBN 13 
9780299306540
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
272
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Editeur : University of Wisconsin Press, 2016
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