Reason after Its Eclipse (inbunden)
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Inbunden (Hardback)
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Engelska
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256
Utgivningsdatum
2016-03-31
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University of Wisconsin Press
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231 x 152 x 25 mm
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499 g
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9780299306502

Reason after Its Eclipse

On Late Critical Theory

av Martin Jay
Inbunden,  Engelska, 2016-03-31
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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 SchoolHorkheimer, Marcuse, Adorno, and most extensively Habermassought 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 willa 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.
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"A magisterial rethinking of the fate of reason, particularly in German philosophy from Kant to Habermas." --Anson Rabinbach, Princeton University "Martin Jay is one of the most respected intellectual historians now working, and any book by him is an important event. His subject here could hardly be bigger: the idea of reason in Western thought over two millennia."--Michael Rosen, Harvard University

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Martin Jay is the Sidney Hellman Ehrman Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of fourteen previous books, including The Dialectical Imagination: A History of the Frankfurt School and the Institute of Social Research, 192350, which has been translated into thirteen languages; Marxism and Totality: The Adventures of a Concept from Lukcs to Habermas; Adorno; Permanent Exiles: Essays on the Intellectual Migration from Germany to America; Downcast Eyes: The Denigration of Vision in Twentieth- Century French Thought; Songs of Experience: Modern European and American Variations on a Universal Theme; and The Virtues of Mendacity: On Lying in Politics.

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