Rethinking the communicative turn

Titel: Rethinking the communicative turn : Adorno, Habermas, and the problem of communicative freedom / Martin Morris
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Veröffentlicht: Albany, N.Y : State Univ. of New York Press, 2001
Umfang: X, 245 S.
Format: E-Book
Sprache: Englisch
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SUNY series in social and political thought
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Vorliegende Ausgabe: Online-Ausg.: 2002. - Online-Ressource.
ISBN: 0791447979 (Sekundärausgabe)

Assesses linguistic versus aesthetic visions of critical theory and their capacity to contribute to the analysis of contemporary democratic society.

Contrasting aesthetic versus linguistic centered visions for critical theory and the analysis of contemporary democratic theory and society, Martin Morris draws special attention to the concept of communicative freedom. He problematizes the paradigm shift within critical theory from the "philosophy of the subject" to the communicative action theory championed by Jürgen Habermas by opposing Habermas's reconstruction of critical theory to that of Theodor W. Adorno.