Feminist Criticisms of Habermas's Ethics and Politics

Dialogue ◽  
1995 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 259-280 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tony Couture
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Critical Theory ◽  
Jürgen Habermas ◽  
Jurgen Habermas ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
Nancy Fraser ◽  
Ethics And Politics

My project is to assess recent objections directed at Jürgen Habermas by Nancy Fraser, Iris Young and Seyla Benhabib. This dispute is significant because it concerns the value of the Enlightenment style, detached criticism promoted by Habermas as compared to new proposals about dissent from a stance connected to social movements. I argue that these feminist criticisms of Habermas's critical theory are compelling and that they require substantial changes in Habermas's thinking.

Foucault's Challenge to Critical Theory

1986 ◽  
Vol 80 (2) ◽  
pp. 419-432 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen K. White
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Critical Theory ◽  
Michel Foucault ◽  
New Social Movements ◽  
Jürgen Habermas ◽  
The Core ◽  
Jurgen Habermas ◽  
Key Points ◽  
Satisfactory Account ◽  
Core Problem

Power, subjectivity, otherness, and modernity are concepts that contemporary political theorists increasingly find to be closely interwoven. In search of an adequate comprehension of the interrelationships among these concepts, I examine the work of Michel Foucault and Jürgen Habermas. I argue that Foucault, although he is provocatively insightful on a number of key points, ultimately provides a less satisfactory account than Habermas. The core problem is Foucault's inability to conceptualize juridical subjectivity, something which is necessary if he is going to connect his notion of aesthetic subjectivity with his endorsement of new social movements.

scholarly journals Pragmática transcendental y filosofía social: Karl Otto Apel, Jürgen Habermas y la nueva fundamentación de la Teoría Crítica

Daímon ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 155-170
Author(s):  
César Ortega Esquembre
Keyword(s):  
Critical Theory ◽  
Communicative Action ◽  
Jürgen Habermas ◽  
Linguistic Turn ◽  
Jurgen Habermas ◽  
Theory Of Communicative Action ◽  
Normative Foundation

El objetivo de este artículo es defender que la pragmática transcendental ofrece la fundamentación normativa de la teoría crítica como teoría de la acción comunicativa. Para ello se expondrá en primer lugar el problema de la normatividad en la Teoría Crítica de la sociedad. Tras describir la forma que adquiere esta teoría tras el giro lingüístico operado por Jürgen Habermas, se reconstruirán en tercer lugar los elementos fundamentales de la pragmática transcendental apeliana y habermasiana. En cuarto y último lugar se mostrará que este modelo constituye la fundamentación normativa de la nueva teoría crítica. The aim of this paper is to argue that transcendental pragmatics constitutes the normative foundation of critical theory, understood as theory of communicative action. To that end, the issue of normativity within Critical Theory discussions is first exposed. After describing the form this theory takes from the linguistic turn carried out by Jürgen Habermas, key elements of Karl Otto Apel´s and Jürgen Habermas´ transcendental pragmatics are thirdly reconstructed. Fourth paragraph shows that this model operates as the normative foundation of the new critical theory.

scholarly journals El entusiasmo de la Revolución. Sobre la filiación kantiana del último Foucault

2018 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
José Luís López de Lizaga
Keyword(s):  
Jürgen Habermas ◽  
Jurgen Habermas ◽  
Nancy Fraser

Este artículo se pregunta si los últimos escritos de Foucault, pertenecientes ya a la década de 1980, superan el déficit normativo que autores como Nancy Fraser o Jürgen Habermas habían criticado en la obra foucaultiana anterior. Y se argumenta que los últimos textos siguen siendo vulnerables a esas críticas, a pesar del giro hacia la cuestión ética del “cuidado de sí” y a pesar de la reivindicación del legado kantiano e ilustrado. En esta argumentación, la comparación de las ideas de Foucault y Kant sobre las revoluciones y su legitimidad es determinante para comprender las dificultades normativas de la producción foucaultiana tardía.

Recovering Ethical Life: Jurgen Habermas and the Future of Critical Theory

1996 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 367
Author(s):  
William Outhwaite ◽  
J. M. Bernstein ◽  
Lorenzo C. Simpson
Keyword(s):  
Critical Theory ◽  
Ethical Life ◽  
Jürgen Habermas ◽  
Jurgen Habermas ◽  
The Future

Member of a school or exponent of a paradigm? Jürgen Habermas and critical theory

2015 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 252-274 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefan Müller-Doohm
Keyword(s):  
Critical Theory ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Communication Theory ◽  
Frankfurt School ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Jürgen Habermas ◽  
The Public ◽  
Jurgen Habermas ◽  
Constitutional State ◽  
The Public Sphere

The label ‘Frankfurt School’ became popular in the ‘positivism dispute’ in the mid-1960s, but this article shows that it is wrong to describe Jürgen Habermas as representing a ‘second generation’ of exponents of critical theory. His communication theory of society is intended not as a transformation of, but as an alternative to, the older tradition of thought represented by Adorno and Horkheimer. The novel and innovative character of Habermas’s approach is demonstrated in relation to three thematic complexes: (1) the public sphere and language; (2) democracy and the constitutional state; and (3) system and lifeworld as categories for a theory of modernity.

Habermas's Treatment for Relativism

Politics ◽  
1994 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 51-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ricardo Blaug
Keyword(s):  
Critical Theory ◽  
Side Effect ◽  
Moral Action ◽  
Jürgen Habermas ◽  
Jurgen Habermas

This paper introduces the critical theory of Jürgen Habermas by presenting it as a response to the problems of relativism. While relativism offers a critique of power abuse, it has the additional effect of undermining the use of reason in political and moral action. Habermas seeks to preserve its strengths, and at the same time to defend a role for reason. Following an exploration of the gains offered by his approach, it is suggested that, though his treatment for relativism is effective, it too has a side-effect.

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