Pluralism and the pragmatic turn : the transformation of critical theory : essays in honor of Thomas McCarthy /

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Imprint:Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2001.
Description:vi, 456 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4641562
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Other authors / contributors:McCarthy, Thomas A.
Rehg, William.
Bohman, James.
ISBN:0262182165 (HC : alk. paper)
0262681323 (PB : alk. paper)
0262681322
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. [431]-435) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • I. Reason and the Pragmatic Turn in Critical Theory
  • 1. From Kant's "Ideas" of Pure Reason to the "Idealizing" Presuppositions of Communicative Action: Reflections on the Detranscendentalized "Use of Reason" / Jurgen Habermas
  • 2. The Ambiguity of "Rationality" / Richard Rorty
  • 3. Practical Reason, the "Space of Reasons," and Public Reason / Kenneth Baynes
  • 4. Participants, Observers, and Critics: Practical Knowledge, Social Perspectives, and Critical Pluralism / James Bohman
  • 5. Adjusting the Pragmatic Turn: Ethnomethodology and Critical Argumentation Theory / William Rehg
  • 6. Do Social Philosophers Need a Theory of Meaning? Social Theory and Semantics after the Pragmatic Turn / Barbara Fultner
  • 7. Problems in the Theory of Ideology / Joseph Heath
  • II. Conceptions of Autonomy and the Self
  • 8. Competent Need-Interpretation and Discourse Ethics / Joel Anderson
  • 9. Into the Sunlight: A Pragmatic Account of the Self / M. Johanna Meehan
  • 10. Mutual Recognition and the Work of the Negative / Joel Whitebook
  • III. Engagements with Political Theory and Problems of Pluralism
  • 11. Taking Ethical Debate Seriously / Georgia Warnke
  • 12. The Logic of Fanaticism: Dewey's Archaeology of the German Mentality / Axel Honneth
  • 13. Political Pluralism in Hegel and Rawls / Andrew Buchwalter
  • 14. Of Guests, Aliens, and Citizens: Rereading Kant's Cosmopolitan Right / Seyla Benhabib
  • 15. Beyond Liberalism: Toleration and the Global Society in Rawls' Law of Peoples / David M. Rasmussen
  • App. Critical Theory Today: An Interview with Thomas McCarthy / Shane O'Neill and Nick Smith
  • App. Bibliography of the Works and Translations of Thomas McCarthy.