Reason After Its Eclipse: On Late Critical Theory

Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-0-299-30654-0
Verlag: University of Wisconsin Press

Buch, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 151 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 368 g

Reihe: George L. Mosse the History of

Tackles a question as old as Plato and still pressing today: what is reason, and what roles does and should it have in human endeavour? Applying the tools of intellectual history, Martin Jay 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jay, Martin

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 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

Über Autor(innen)

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.