The Normative Basis of Critical TheoryIntroduction to Critical Theory: Horkheimer to Habermas. By David Held Metacritique: The Philosophical Argument of Jürgen Habermas . By Garbis Kortian The Critical Theory of Jürgen Habermas . By Thomas McCarthy The Imaginary Witness: The Critical Theory of Herbert Marcuse. By Morton Schoolman

Polity ◽  
1983 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 150-164 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen K. White
Keyword(s):  
Critical Theory ◽  
Herbert Marcuse ◽  
Philosophical Argument ◽  
Jürgen Habermas ◽  
Jurgen Habermas ◽  
Normative Basis

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.

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.

The Critical Theory of Jurgen Habermas.

1980 ◽  
Vol 89 (1) ◽  
pp. 121 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julius Sensat ◽  
Thomas McCarthy
Keyword(s):  
Critical Theory ◽  
Jürgen Habermas ◽  
Jurgen Habermas

Engaging Adorno: Critical security studies after emancipation

2013 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carolin Kaltofen
Keyword(s):  
Critical Theory ◽  
Frankfurt School ◽  
Security Studies ◽  
Critical Approach ◽  
Jürgen Habermas ◽  
Critical Security Studies ◽  
Jurgen Habermas ◽  
Axel Honneth ◽  
Intellectual Legacy

Even though its focus on emancipation purposefully intends to build upon the intellectual legacy of the Frankfurt School, critical security studies has thus far only interpreted the Frankfurt tradition in a circumscribed manner. That is to say, it selectively drew on some concepts from critical theory that are most associated with Jürgen Habermas and Axel Honneth. However, as a result of this emphasis, Booth and Wyn Jones – the original proponents of critical security studies – give too little attention to thinkers such as Theodor W. Adorno. This article demonstrates that a re-engagement with Adorno’s work not only provides a more complete appraisal of the Frankfurt School’s thought, but also might reinvigorate critical security studies as a ‘critical’ approach to security. It proposes that such a result can be achieved by employing Adorno’s ethics of resistance and through the development of the philosophical construct of a constellation of security.

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