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This cluster of papers revolves around Critical Theory, focusing on social pathologies, recognition, multiple modernities, and the critique of capitalism. It delves into topics such as normative critique, deliberative democracy, ideology critique, the Axial Age, and the cultural turn in understanding modernity.

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Habermas; Social Pathologies; Recognition; Modernities; Capitalism; Normative Critique; Deliberative Democracy; Ideology Critique; Axial Age; Cultural Turn

Deliberative democracy and beyond: liberals, critics, contestations

2001-06-01

John S. Dryzek

Introduction: The Deliberative Turn in Democratic Theory Liberal Democracy and the Critical Alternative Minimal Democracy? The Social Choice Critique Difference Democracy: The Consciousness-Raising Group Against the Gentlemen's Club Insurgent Democracy: … Introduction: The Deliberative Turn in Democratic Theory Liberal Democracy and the Critical Alternative Minimal Democracy? The Social Choice Critique Difference Democracy: The Consciousness-Raising Group Against the Gentlemen's Club Insurgent Democracy: Civil Society and State Transnational Democracy: Beyond the Cosmopolitan Model Green Democracy Discursive Democracy in a Reflexive Modernity

The theory of communicative action

2005-06-30

Andrew Edgar

Habermas's work between 1973 and 1983 may be seen to be primarily concerned to work out the implications of Legitimation Crisis. This entails the development of a theoretical reconstruction of … Habermas's work between 1973 and 1983 may be seen to be primarily concerned to work out the implications of Legitimation Crisis. This entails the development of a theoretical reconstruction of the competences that people use in everyday communication: universal pragmatics. This takes its final form in the magisterial The Theory of Communicative Action. At the same time he is working out the ethical theory that is outlined in the final part of Legitimation Crisis. (A collection of essays on this theme was published in 1983.) As is perhaps unsurprising given the direct link between universal pragmatics and The Theory of Communicative Action, characterized as it is with a synoptic engagement with the grand traditions of sociology, Habermas approaches universal pragmatics as a comprehensive social theory. At one level this is a continuation of his exploration of the tensions between instrumental and hermeneutic practice that had concerned him in the 1960s. While he makes a distinction between non-social instrumental action (which is to say, instrumental work on the natural world) and “social action”, he further divides social action into “strategic action” and “communicative action”. Strategic action is orientated to success, which is to say that the agent takes an objectifying attitude to the social world, and thus seeks to manipulate social “objects”. In constrast, communicative action is orientated to mutual understanding. The agent treats others as subjects with whom one establishes meaningful intersubjective relations (ARC: 263; CES: 209).

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Otherwise than Being or Beyond Essence

1991-01-01

Emmanuel Lévinas

Critical theory : selected essays

1972-01-01

Max Horkheimer

These essays, written in the 1930s and 1940s, represent a first selection in English from the major work of the founder of the famous Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt. … These essays, written in the 1930s and 1940s, represent a first selection in English from the major work of the founder of the famous Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt. Horkheimer's writings are essential to an understanding of the intellectual background of the New Left and the to much current social-philosophical thought, including the work of Herbert Marcuse. Apart from their historical significance and even from their scholarly eminence, these essays contain an immediate relevance only now becoming fully recognized.

Sozialer Sinn : Kritik der theoretischen Vernunft

1987-01-01

Pierre Bourdieu , Günter Seib

61. The Saturated Self: Dilemmas of Identity in Contemporary Life

2015-07-29

Kenneth J. Gergen

* The Self Under Siege * From the Romantic to the Modern Vision of Self * Social Saturation and the Populated Self * Truth in Trouble * The Emergence of … * The Self Under Siege * From the Romantic to the Modern Vision of Self * Social Saturation and the Populated Self * Truth in Trouble * The Emergence of Postmodern Culture * From Self to Relationship * A Collage of Postmodern Life * Self-Renewal and Sincerity * Reckoning and Relativity

Rethinking Critical Theory and Qualitative Research

2011-01-01

Joe L. Kincheloe , Peter McLaren

Some 70 years after its development in Frankfurt, Germany, critical theory retains its ability to disrupt and hallenge the status quo. In the process, it elicits highlycharged emotions of all … Some 70 years after its development in Frankfurt, Germany, critical theory retains its ability to disrupt and hallenge the status quo. In the process, it elicits highlycharged emotions of all types—fierce loyalty from its roponents, vehement hostility from its detractors. Such vibrantly polar reactions indicate at the very least that critical theory still matters. We can be against critical theory or for it, but, especially at the present historical uncture, we cannot be without it.

Moral Consciousness and Communicative Action.

1992-10-01

David Weberman , Jürgen Habermas , Christian Lenhardt +2 more

Introduction by Thomas McCarthy. Philosophy as Stand--In and Interpreter. Reconstruction and Interpretation in the Social Sciences. Discourse Ethics: Notes on a Program of Philosophical Justification. Moral Consciousness and Communicative Action. … Introduction by Thomas McCarthy. Philosophy as Stand--In and Interpreter. Reconstruction and Interpretation in the Social Sciences. Discourse Ethics: Notes on a Program of Philosophical Justification. Moral Consciousness and Communicative Action. Morality and Ethical Life: Does Hegela s Critique of Kant Apply to Discourse Ethics?. Index.

ON THE CONSTRUCTION OF A SOCIAL REALITY

2018-02-14

John R. Searle

This short treatise looks at how we construct a social reality from our sense impressions; at how, for example, we construct a five-pound note with all that implies in terms … This short treatise looks at how we construct a social reality from our sense impressions; at how, for example, we construct a five-pound note with all that implies in terms of value and social meaning, from the printed piece of paper we see and touch. In The Construction of Social Reality, eminent philosopher John Searle examines the structure of social reality (or those portions of the world that are facts only by human agreement, such as money, marriage, property, and government), and contrasts it to a brute reality that is independent of human agreement. Searle shows that brute reality provides the indisputable foundation for all social reality, and that social reality, while very real, is maintained by nothing more than custom and habit.

Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture

1400-01-01

Cary Nelson , Lawrence Grossberg

Dialectic of Enlightenment

2020-07-01

Max Horkheimer , Theodor W. Adorno

Dialectic of Enlightenment is, quite justifiably, one of the most celebrated and often cited works of modern social philosophy. It has been identified as the keystone of the 'Frankfurt School', … Dialectic of Enlightenment is, quite justifiably, one of the most celebrated and often cited works of modern social philosophy. It has been identified as the keystone of the 'Frankfurt School', of which Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer were the leading members, and does not cease to impress in its wide-ranging ambition and panache. Adorno and Horkheimer addressees themselves to a question which went to the very heart of the modern age, namely 'why mankind, instead of entering into a truly human condition, is sinking into a new kind of barbarism'. Modernity, far from redeeming the promises and hopes of the Enlightenment, had resulted in a stultification of mankind and an administered society, characterised by simulation and candy-floss entertainment. To seek an answer to the question of how such a condition could arise, Adorno and Horkheier subjected the whole history of Western catagories of reason and nature, from Homer to Nietzsche, to a searching philosophical and psychological critique. Drawing on psychoanalytical insights, their own work on the 'culture industry', deep knowledge of the key Enlightenment and anti-Enlightenment thinkers, as well as fascinating considerations on the relationship between reason and myth - the rational and the irrational - the authors exposed the domination and violence towards both nature and humanity that underpin the Enlightenment project.

Studies in the Theory of Ideology

1984-12-31

John Thompson

In this volume John B. Thompson examines some of the outstanding contemporary contributions to the study of ideology. He focuses primarily on European social theorists and philosophers, providing concise and … In this volume John B. Thompson examines some of the outstanding contemporary contributions to the study of ideology. He focuses primarily on European social theorists and philosophers, providing concise and critical appraisals of their work.

Specters of Marx

2012-10-12

Jacques Derrida

Prodigiously influential, Jacques Derrida gave rise to a comprehensive rethinking of the basic concepts and categories of Western philosophy in the latter part of the twentieth century, with writings central … Prodigiously influential, Jacques Derrida gave rise to a comprehensive rethinking of the basic concepts and categories of Western philosophy in the latter part of the twentieth century, with writings central to our understanding of language, meaning, identity, ethics and values. In 1993, a conference was organized around the question, 'Whither Marxism?’, and Derrida was invited to open the proceedings. His plenary address, 'Specters of Marx', delivered in two parts, forms the basis of this book. Hotly debated when it was first published, a rapidly changing world and world politics have scarcely dented the relevance of this book.

Introduction to Critical Theory

1980-12-31

David Held

Acknowledgements. Introduction. Part I: Critical Theory: The Frankfurt School:. 1. The formation of the Institute of Social Research. 2. Class, Class Conflict and the Development of Capitalism:. Critical theory and … Acknowledgements. Introduction. Part I: Critical Theory: The Frankfurt School:. 1. The formation of the Institute of Social Research. 2. Class, Class Conflict and the Development of Capitalism:. Critical theory and political economy. 3. The Culture Industry:. Critical theory and aesthetics. 4. The Changing Structure of the Family and the Individual:. Critical theory and psychoanalysis. 5. The Critique of Instrumental Reason:. Critical theory and philosophy of history. 6. Horkheimera s Formulation of Critical Theory:. Epistemology and method 1. 7. Adornoa s Conception of Negative Dialectics:. Epistemology and method 2. 8. Marcusea s Notions of Theory and Practice:. Epistemology and method 3. Part II: Critical Theory: Habermas:. 9. Introduction to Habermas. 10. Discourse, Science and Society. 11. Interests, Knowledge and Action. 12. The Reformulation of the Foundations of Critical Theory. Part III: The Importance and Limitations of Critical Theory:. 13. An Assessment of the Frankfurt School and Habermas. 14. The concept of critical theory.

One-Dimensional Man

2000-03-01

Timothy W. Luke

Herbert Marcuse’s critical theories outline some of the most sophisticated and powerful analyses of modern capitalism’s environmental problems. Although Marcuse’s intricately crafted critiques often are difficult, these qualities are one … Herbert Marcuse’s critical theories outline some of the most sophisticated and powerful analyses of modern capitalism’s environmental problems. Although Marcuse’s intricately crafted critiques often are difficult, these qualities are one sign of the theoretical rewards to be had from mastering his arguments about the interrelatedness of humanity and nature. One-Dimensional Man is probably Marcuse’s greatest work, and the one in which he develops most systematically his vision of how technologies, economies, and states coevolve to dominate both human beings and natural environments. In this work, Marcuse effectively outlines how the nature of humanity and the Earth’s ecology are reshaped to serve narrow class interests that benefit from the ongoing creation of such forms of domination.

Central Problems in Social Theory: Action, Structure and Contradiction in Social Analysis.

1980-09-01

Howard L. Parsons , Anthony Giddens

Preface Introduction 1. Structuralism and the Theory of the Subject 2. Agency, Structure 3. Institutions, Reproduction, Socialization 4. Contradiction, Power, Historical Materialism 5. Ideology and Consciousness 6. Time, Space, Social … Preface Introduction 1. Structuralism and the Theory of the Subject 2. Agency, Structure 3. Institutions, Reproduction, Socialization 4. Contradiction, Power, Historical Materialism 5. Ideology and Consciousness 6. Time, Space, Social Change 7. The Prospects for Social Theory Today Notes and References Index

The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity

1991-01-01

Dennis L. Sepper

Modernity and Self-Identity, Self and Society in the Late Modern Age

1992-03-01

Bryan S. Turner , Anthony Giddens

Habermas and the Public Sphere.

1993-07-01

Bob Jessop , Craig Calhoun

The dialectic of enlightenment

2004-08-26

Julian Roberts

Horkheimer and Adorno's book Dialectic of Enlightenment was written in the concluding months of the Second World War. It is comparable with contemporaneous works by other exiled German speaking philosophers, … Horkheimer and Adorno's book Dialectic of Enlightenment was written in the concluding months of the Second World War. It is comparable with contemporaneous works by other exiled German speaking philosophers, notably Popper's The Open Society and its Enemies and Lukács's The Destruction of Reason, in being what Popper himself described as his "contribution to the war effort." Comparisons are instructive.

A Preface to Democratic Theory

1957-09-01

William H. Harbold , Robert A. Dahl

Habermas and the Public Sphere

1992-01-01

David Harrington Watt , Craig Calhoun

Journal Article Habermas and the Public Sphere, edited by Craig Calhoun. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1992, x + 498 pp. $45 Get access David Harrington Watt David Harrington Watt Temple … Journal Article Habermas and the Public Sphere, edited by Craig Calhoun. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1992, x + 498 pp. $45 Get access David Harrington Watt David Harrington Watt Temple University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 53, Issue 4, Winter 1992, Pages 466–468, https://doi.org/10.2307/3711450 Published: 01 December 1992

Modernity and Self-Identity

2016-03-31

Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture

1989-05-01

James Westfall Thompson , Cary Nelson , Lawrence Grossberg

Homo Sacer

2020-07-01

Giorgio Agamben

One of Italy's most original philosophers aims to connect the problem of pure possibility, potentiality, and power with the problem of political and social ethics in a context where the … One of Italy's most original philosophers aims to connect the problem of pure possibility, potentiality, and power with the problem of political and social ethics in a context where the latter has lost its previous religious, metaphysical, and cultural grounding.

Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, the

2008-01-01

Rethinking the Public Sphere: A Contribution to the Critique of Actually Existing Democracy

1990-01-01

Nancy Fraser

Habermas and the public sphere

1992-10-01

Modernity and Self-Identity

2023-04-28

Anthony Giddens

The Logic of Collective Action

1965-12-31

Mancur Olson

Olson develops a theory of group and organizational behavior that cuts across disciplinary lines and illustrates the theory with empirical and historical studies of particular organizations, examining the extent to … Olson develops a theory of group and organizational behavior that cuts across disciplinary lines and illustrates the theory with empirical and historical studies of particular organizations, examining the extent to which individuals who share a common interest find it in their individual interest to bear the costs of the organizational effort.

Dialectic of enlightenment : philosophical fragments

2002-01-01

Max Horkheimer , Theodor W. Adorno , Gunzelin Schmid Noerr +1 more

Dialectic of Enlightenment is undoubtedly the most influential publication of the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory. Written during the Second World War and circulated privately, it appeared in a printed … Dialectic of Enlightenment is undoubtedly the most influential publication of the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory. Written during the Second World War and circulated privately, it appeared in a printed edition in Amsterdam in 1947. What we had set out to do, the authors write in the Preface, nothing less than to explain why humanity, instead of entering a truly human state, is sinking into a new kind of barbarism. Yet the work goes far beyond a mere critique of contemporary events. Historically remote developments, indeed, the birth of Western history and of subjectivity itself out of the struggle against natural forces, as represented in myths, are connected in a wide arch to the most threatening experiences of the present. The book consists in five chapters, at first glance unconnected, together with a number of shorter notes. The various analyses concern such phenomena as the detachment of science from practical life, formalized morality, the manipulative nature of entertainment culture, and a paranoid behavioral structure, expressed in aggressive anti-Semitism, that marks the limits of enlightenment. The authors perceive a common element in these phenomena, the tendency toward self-destruction of the guiding criteria inherent in enlightenment thought from the beginning. Using historical analyses to elucidate the present, they show, against the background of a prehistory of subjectivity, why the National Socialist terror was not an aberration of modern history but was rooted deeply in the fundamental characteristics of Western civilization. Adorno and Horkheimer see the self-destruction of Western reason as grounded in a historical and fateful dialectic between the domination of external nature and society. They trace enlightenment, which split these spheres apart, back to its mythical roots. Enlightenment and myth, therefore, are not irreconcilable opposites, but dialectically mediated qualities of both real and intellectual life. Myth is already enlightenment, and enlightenment reverts to mythology. This paradox is the fundamental thesis of the book. This new translation, based on the text in the complete edition of the works of Max Horkheimer, contains textual variants, commentary upon them, and an editorial discussion of the position of this work in the development of Critical Theory.

INTERCOLLEGIATE LECTURES ON POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY [1969–1970]

2025-06-24

| Anthem Press eBooks

Perception, Recognition, and the Aesthetics of Exclusion. A Paradox in Axel Honneth’s Social Theory

2025-06-23

Adam Chmielewski | Philosophia

Uma crítica pragmática à fundamentação da ética do discurso de Habermas

2025-06-23

Érico Andrade | Philósophos - Revista de Filosofia

Habermas pretende estabelecer a partir da linguagem procedimentos formais para a produção de consenso quanto a questões morais. Resta saber, no entanto, se a situação ideal de fala, que indica … Habermas pretende estabelecer a partir da linguagem procedimentos formais para a produção de consenso quanto a questões morais. Resta saber, no entanto, se a situação ideal de fala, que indica as condições básicas para o consenso, poderia escapar a uma crítica pragmática que leva em consideração os seguintes problemas: a) a impossibilidade de uma racionalidade neutra moralmente ou que não traga em si mesma um valor moral; b) a necessidade de um caráter coercitivo da situação ideal de fala, ou seja, para que o consenso seja possível, é necessário que as suas condições básicas já sejam consensualmente tomadas como elemento normativo.

Besprechung: Leonie Hunter: Das Drama im Politischen – Hegels Ästhetik als demokratietheoretischer Traktat, Konstanz: Konstanz University Press 2023, 276 S.

2025-06-23

Herr v. Rehtanz | Zeitschrift für Ästhetik und Allgemeine Kunstwissenschaft

Modernity as alienation – Nishitani Keiji on the problems of modernity

2025-06-23

Anttoni Kuusela | Asian Philosophy

Manhood, Fascism, and Biopower

2025-06-23

James P. Burns | Routledge eBooks

The Exile of Philosophy

2025-06-19

| Cambridge University Press eBooks

Humanism and Anti-humanism: a Judgement on “Modernity”

2025-06-19

Jonathan Molinari | BRILL eBooks

Feminist Philosophy: Time, History and the Transformation of Thought

2025-06-19

I. Hällström | NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research

Philosophy, Democracy, and Political Communication

2025-06-18

Richard M. Perloff | Routledge eBooks

Moses (1830)

2025-06-17

| Yale University Press eBooks

O cinema político de Ken Loach: trabalho, pós-fordismo e sofrimento psíquico em Sorry We Missed You (2019)

2025-06-16

Rafael Lucas Santos da Silva | Ilha do Desterro A Journal of English Language Literatures in English and Cultural Studies

Embora o filme Sorry We Missed You (2019), de Ken Loach, tenha gerado discussões significativas sobre as configurações do trabalho no contexto contemporâneo, alguns aspectos cruciais de sua composição permanecem … Embora o filme Sorry We Missed You (2019), de Ken Loach, tenha gerado discussões significativas sobre as configurações do trabalho no contexto contemporâneo, alguns aspectos cruciais de sua composição permanecem insuficientemente explorados. Este ensaio apresenta um trabalho de interpretação de um desses aspectos, a saber, a intersecção entre subjetividade e trabalho presente no modo como se configura a representação do cotidiano na composição narrativo-dramática do filme. Para este fim, partindo da noção de “fantasia social”, de Slavoj Žižek, tecemos uma série de comentários críticos com a intenção de refletir sobre a composição narrativo-dramática, à luz tanto do processo histórico-social pós-fordista, como de seus impasses, em perspectiva interdisciplinar. Entre as referências teóricas deste ensaio, estão os estudos de Arantes (2014), Bihr (1998), Harvey (1992), Safatle (2019) e Žižek (2014). De acordo com a interpretação aqui proposta, o filme estiliza uma experiência social de sofrimento característico de uma ordem simbólica na qual prevalece uma “violência sistêmica” (Žižek, 2014), que ocasiona um processo de “centralidade negativa do trabalho” (Arantes, 2014). A partir dessas condições, argumentamos ser possível acompanhar uma dialética de reconhecimento do desejo que estrutura a tensão social irresolvida, na qual o fracasso da fantasia conduz a personagem Ricky a um encontro traumático com o Real.

Duygusal Kapitalizmin Hoşnutsuzluklarına Karşı Nietzscheci Direnç İzlekleri

2025-06-14

Necdet Yıldız | Deleted Journal

Bu yazı, Eva Illouz’un tanımlamış olduğu “duygusal kapitalizm” kavramı çerçevesinde neoliberal toplumlarda bireylerin karşı karşıya kaldığı psikopolitik bazı krizleri ve bu krizlere karşı Nietzscheci bir direncin olanağını ve kapsamını tartışmaktadır. … Bu yazı, Eva Illouz’un tanımlamış olduğu “duygusal kapitalizm” kavramı çerçevesinde neoliberal toplumlarda bireylerin karşı karşıya kaldığı psikopolitik bazı krizleri ve bu krizlere karşı Nietzscheci bir direncin olanağını ve kapsamını tartışmaktadır. Yazıda, Illouz’un yanı sıra Edgar Cabanas ve Byung-Chul Han gibi düşünürlerin eleştirilerinden hareketle, günümüzün yönetimselliğinin duygu yönetimi kaynaklı olarak ortaya koyduğu tehlikeler ve bunlara karşı geliştirilebilecek Nietzscheci bireysel stratejiler sorgulanmaktadır. Duygusal kapitalizmin özellikle bireyi sonsuz bir biçimde izole edip ona sonsuz sorumluluk yüklemesi, iyileşmek istemeyen hasta bir özne tipi ortaya çıkarması ve başkalarına duyarsız narsistik bir tür içe dönüşü tetiklemesi gibi tehlikeleri formüle edilip ele alınarak, Nietzsche’nin birey-toplum ikiliği hakkında tarihselliği ve toplumsallığı da hesaba katan perspektivist anlayışının yanı sıra kendini aşma ve aktif unutma gibi kavramsal vurguları ortaya konmakta ve bu düşüncelerden hareketle, bahsedilen tehlikelere karşı bazı direnç izlekleri sunulmaktadır. Sonuç olarak, bu direnç izleklerinin bireyi korumada önemli faydalarının olduğu iddia edilse de bireysel stratejilerle sınırlı kaldığı için bazı eksiklikleri de beraberinde getireceği kabul edilmekte, toplumsal değişim stratejileri ile kombine edilmiş daha kapsayıcı bir bakış için bu yazıda olduğu gibi Nietzsche’nin Eleştirel Teori düşünürlerine ait olanlar gibi güncel ve daha yoğun toplumsal içerik taşıyan eleştirilerle birlikte okunmasının taşıdığı önem vurgulanmaktadır.

Method and its other: Adorno’s challenge to phenomenology

2025-06-14

Iaan Reynolds | Philosophy & Social Criticism

This paper reads Adorno’s engagement with Husserlian phenomenology as a resource for recent discussions on phenomenology and social critique. Transcendental phenomenology’s inability to develop an adequate account of society, according … This paper reads Adorno’s engagement with Husserlian phenomenology as a resource for recent discussions on phenomenology and social critique. Transcendental phenomenology’s inability to develop an adequate account of society, according to Adorno, comes from its methodological compulsion to ground this knowledge in first principles. This leads it to produce a socially necessary illusion of society as a harmonious community of monads. If this ‘first philosophy’ produces an inverted image of society, however, learning to see the resulting pseudos is a task for which there is no step-by-step formula. In contrast to Husserl’s construction of society as a harmonious community of monads, Adorno’s critical theory sees society as a negative totality, and he claims that doing justice to this contradictory social object involves breaking the compulsion to system and method as philosophical guidelines. After outlining how Husserl’s conception of method reflects in his account of society, we will review Adorno’s criticism of this aspect of transcendental phenomenology. We will close with a consideration of Adorno’s conception of ‘last philosophy’: a fragmentary project that works to disclose the negative totality through a conceptual reflection on the individual moments composing it.

Is it possible to form a rational identity? A critical reading of Habermas’ account of social identity

2025-06-13

Ali Teymoori , Amin Mataji | Philosophy & Social Criticism

Habermas’ account of social identity is the most sophisticated among various deliberative and expansive democratic models and aligns with his long-standing theoretical commitment to communicative rationality that is tailored to … Habermas’ account of social identity is the most sophisticated among various deliberative and expansive democratic models and aligns with his long-standing theoretical commitment to communicative rationality that is tailored to the democratic organization of society. Taking a normative stance, he proposes a procedural account of social identity within communicative rationality, achievable only in modernity and deliberative democracy. We argue that his formulation of social identity is inadequate, given a problematic stage-based framework in his historical account of societal evolution and the insubstantial nature of social identity in his linguistic and procedural accounts of social identity. Nonetheless, Habermas’ approach can serve as a starting point to develop a more inclusive and empirically defensible conceptual framework for collective identity, grounded in robust institutional foundations and a substantive account of the political. Finally, by challenging Habermas’ separation of system and lifeworld, we argue that a rational social identity should be rooted in both domains.

A német idealizmus és a politikai romantika határán. Schelling kései filozófiájáról

2025-06-10

Ákos Forczek | Elpis Filozófiatudományi Folyóirat

Jóllehet Schelling elszórt és töredékes politikai filozófiai írásai újabban a kutatás középpontjába kerültek, arról kevés szó esik, hogy van-e valamilyen belső összefüggés Schelling politikai eszmevilága, illetve az életének utolsó évtizedeiben … Jóllehet Schelling elszórt és töredékes politikai filozófiai írásai újabban a kutatás középpontjába kerültek, arról kevés szó esik, hogy van-e valamilyen belső összefüggés Schelling politikai eszmevilága, illetve az életének utolsó évtizedeiben kidolgozott mitológia- és kinyilatkoztatásfilozófiája között. Álláspontom szerint még a társadalmi valóságtól látszólag nagyon messze vezető (teogóniai-kozmogóniai) spekulációk is világos politikai hitvallást implikálnak: Schelling kései politikafilozófiája, valamint ontológiai-potenciaelméleti tanítása kölcsönösen előfeltételezik és meghatározzák egymást. Tanulmányomban arra törekszem, hogy ezt a korrelációt tisztázzam.

C. B. Macpherson and Democracy Today

2025-06-01

Phillip Hansen | New Political Science

Abstract This article examines the political thought of C. B. Macpherson and highlights its value in the current era in which democracy is under siege. It focuses on Macpherson’s signal … Abstract This article examines the political thought of C. B. Macpherson and highlights its value in the current era in which democracy is under siege. It focuses on Macpherson’s signal concept of possessive individualism, and explores the trajectory of his treatment of liberal democracy over time to show his continuing relevance for democratic theory and practice. Both dimensions are linked to the historical vicissitudes and contradictions of liberalism. Macpherson’s accounts of democracy indicate parallels to the critical theory of the Frankfurt School by providing underappreciated insights into the relation of liberalism to authoritarianism and thereby suggest how his ideas contribute to the tasks of a critical political science and its appraisal of democracy’s prospects.

White Suit, Black Notebooks: (Un)Disclosed Diaries of Bronislaw Malinowski and Martin Heidegger

2025-06-01

Andrea Matošević | [sic] - a journal of literature culture and literary translation

Disembodied Cogito and Embodied Subjectivity: With Special Reference to Maurice Merleau-Ponty

2025-06-01

Arati Barua | Sampratyaya.

A Noção Marxiana de Trabalho como Concretização Representacional da Ideia Lógico-Hegeliana de Ser Social

2025-05-31

Antônio Carlos da Rocha Costa | Revista Opinião Filosófica

Initially, this article reviews the Hegelian notion of Syllogism, taken in its most general form, and explains the distinction between Passive syllogisms and Active syllogisms, a distinction that Hegel himself … Initially, this article reviews the Hegelian notion of Syllogism, taken in its most general form, and explains the distinction between Passive syllogisms and Active syllogisms, a distinction that Hegel himself established, but did not emphasize. The article then shows that Active syllogisms constitute the operatory core of the Hegelian notion of Subjective idea. Next, the article examines in detail the Subjective idea of Social being, which Hegel established under the name Gender. Finally, the article introduces the notion of the operation of representational concretization of a Subjective idea and shows that the logical structure of the notion of Labor adopted by Marx in his writings on Political Economy can be seen as a particular representational concretization of the Idea of Social being.

Ernst Bloch’ta Ütopya ve Ütopyanın İçkin Eleştirisi: Felaketler, Savaşlar, Çoklu Krizler Çağında Distopyalaşan bir Ütopya Mı?

2025-05-31

Ziya DİNÇSOY | ViraVerita E-Dergi

Bu çalışmada 20.Yüzyıl’ın Almanca konuşulan felsefe dünyasının temel filozoflarından biri olan, ele aldığı konuları yarım asırdan uzun bir süre boyunca farklı veçheleri ile ele alan, umudun ve filozofu olarak anılan … Bu çalışmada 20.Yüzyıl’ın Almanca konuşulan felsefe dünyasının temel filozoflarından biri olan, ele aldığı konuları yarım asırdan uzun bir süre boyunca farklı veçheleri ile ele alan, umudun ve filozofu olarak anılan Ernst Bloch'un umut ve ütopya kavramlarına toplum ve politika felsefesi bağlamında konulara odaklanılmıştır. Umut ve ütopya kavramları olumlu anlamlarının yanı sıra olumsuz anlamlar ve imgeler de içermektedir. Bloch bu olumsuz anlam ve imgelerin farkında olarak kavramların tarihsel önemine vurgu yaparken, eleştirel noktaları da dile getirmektedir. Bu makalede Bloch'un bu her iki kavrama olan tutkulu bağlılığı gösterildikten sonra, Bloch'un öz eleştirisi olarak okunabilecek vurguları da ele alınmaktadır. Umut ve ütopya kavramlarının tersi yönündeki (distopya) bir anlayış için de anlamlı olabileceği ve böylece her iki kavramdan beslenen yeni bir sentezin oluşturulabileceği hem Bloch'un kendi metinleri hem de eleştirileri üzerinden aktarılmaktadır. Böylece felaket, distopya, çoklu kriz, kıyamet kavramlarının sıklıkla kullanıldığı bir dönemde umut ve ütopya kavramlarının bir anlamının kalıp kalmadığı ve bu tartışmalara nasıl müdahil olabileceği gösterilmeye çalışılmıştır.

Two Models of Liberal Ethics of Citizenship: The Habermas-Rawls Debate and Its Ethical Extension

2025-05-31

Yoryeon Seo | Journal of Moral & Ethics Education

Is Resolute Dasein in Being and Time an Individualist or a Communitarian?

2025-05-31

Hyungjun Cho | CHUL HAK SA SANG - Journal of Philosophical Ideas

Relational Praxis and Regenerative Possibility

2025-05-31

Oliver Koenig , Eva Pomeroy , Megan Seneque +1 more | Journal of Awareness-Based Systems Change

Regenerating the quality of the social soil—the deeper space of connection with each other, with the land, and with ourselves—has always been at the heart of the work of awareness-based … Regenerating the quality of the social soil—the deeper space of connection with each other, with the land, and with ourselves—has always been at the heart of the work of awareness-based systems change. This issue’s editorial, which highlights the notable milestone of JASC’s first special-themed issue, dedicated to Social Presencing Theater (SPT), considers social soil regeneration within the context of deepening social fragmentation, polarisation and disconnection. Each contribution to this issue responds the current context by offering ways to bridge relational disconnects, recognizing that the (research) practices themselves are more than methods for studying or intervening in systems—they are practices shaping the very realities they seek to transform. Social Presencing Theater—a form of awareness-based emergent movement and embodiment—offers a quiet, more spacious mode of exploration and engagement to make visible the otherwise invisible dynamics in a system, and create a space for future possibilities to become known and embodied. SPT and other relational, transgressive, and transformative (research) practices proffer the possibility of holding our collective attention there long enough, and with enough openness, for new forms of enacted systems to emerge.

Democracy and Exclusion by Patti T. Lenard: introduction to the symposium

2025-05-30

Zsolt Kapelner | Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy

Adorno's project as it unfolds in Dialectic of Enlightenment and Negative Dialectics

2025-05-30

Nektarios Kastrinakis | Routledge eBooks

Deleuze's and Adorno's Nietzsche, ‘Nietzsche's paradox’ and a critical debate between Critical Theory and poststructuralism over dialectics

2025-05-30

Nektarios Kastrinakis | Routledge eBooks