Critique and disclosure : critical theory between past and future

Critique and disclosure : critical theory between past and future / Nikolas Kompridis.

A provocatively argued call for shifting the emphasis of critical theory from Habermasian "critique," restricted to normative clarification, to "disclosure," a possibility-enhancing approach that draws on and reinterprets ideas of Heidegger

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kompridis, Nikolas
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2006.
Subjects:
Habermas, Jürgen.
Heidegger, Martin, > 1889-1976.
Habermas, Jürgen
Heidegger, Martin, > 1889-1976
Criticism (Philosophy)
PHILOSOPHY > Movements > Critical Theory.
PHILOSOPHY > Movements > Existentialism.
PHILOSOPHY > Criticism.
PHILOSOPHY > General.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface; Key to Habermas and Heidegger Citations; I What Is Critical Theory For . . .; 1
  • Crisis and Critique; 2
  • The Problem of Beginning Anew; 3
  • Modernity's Relation to Time; 4
  • Renewing the Tradition; 5
  • A Paradigm in Distress; 6
  • Reappropriating the Idea of "World Disclosure"; II Dependent Freedom; 1
  • Disclosure and Intersubjectivity; 2
  • Freedom and Intelligibility; 3
  • Entschlossenheit as Disclosure; 4
  • Recovering the Everyday; 5
  • "To Make Conscious a Murky Reality"; III Another Voice of Reason; 1
  • A New Orientation for the Critique of Reason.
  • 2
  • The Metacritique of Disclosure3
  • Invoking the "Other" of Reason; 4
  • The Aestheticizing Strategy; 5
  • The Extraordinary Everyday; 6
  • World-Disclosing Arguments?; 7
  • The Debunking Strategy; 8
  • The Annexing Strategy; 9
  • The Test of Disclosure; IV The Business of Philosophy; 1
  • Philosophy: Overburdened or Shortchanged?; 2
  • Guardian of Rationality? Defender of the Lifeworld?; 3
  • Philosophy's Virtue: Knowing When to Speak; 4 Cultural Authority; 5
  • Philosophy's Kind of Writing; 6
  • Two Kinds of Fallibilism; V Alternative Sources of Normativity; 1
  • Disclosure, Change, and the New.
  • 2
  • Receptivity, Not Passivity3
  • Self-Decentering; 4
  • The Possibility-Disclosing Role of Reason; VI ... in Times of Need?; 1
  • An Aversion to Critique and the Exhaustion of Utopian Energies; 2
  • Disclosure as (Intimate) Critique; 3
  • Critical Theory's Time; 4
  • Suppressed Romanticism (Inheritance without Testament); Notes; Index.

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