The Defeat of Critique
Emergence and Domestication of Critical Theory
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2025
Verso Books (Verlag)
978-1-80429-529-8 (ISBN)
Verso Books (Verlag)
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A critical perspective on Critical Theory, pointing the decline of its initial radical potential and the necessity of reviving it.
This book brings a new perspective on the formation and evolution of Critical Theory, tracing the intellectual trajectory of three of its major representatives: Horkheimer, Habermas and Honneth. It demonstrates how a theoretical project that started as a radical rethinking of Marxism, responding to the defeat of the Left in the face of Nazism, disintegrated from within and lost its initial radical potential.
Faced with the isolation of exile and the failure of the anti-fascist fronts, Horkheimer broke with his founding project and turned towards a negative philosophy of history. The coming of the next generations of the Frankfurt School allowed for a renewal of the theoretical ambition but at a high price: critique had to adapt to the order of post-war West Germany. With Habermas, critique aims to expand a public space, ignoring the contradictions of social relations; with Honneth, it becomes a therapy of the social, aiming at repairing a world instead of transforming it. From one generation to the next, Critical Theory has turned its back on the analysis of the regressive potential inherent in capitalist modernity. But its initial project has still significant resources to offer for an understanding of the present and for the emancipatory struggles of our time.
This book brings a new perspective on the formation and evolution of Critical Theory, tracing the intellectual trajectory of three of its major representatives: Horkheimer, Habermas and Honneth. It demonstrates how a theoretical project that started as a radical rethinking of Marxism, responding to the defeat of the Left in the face of Nazism, disintegrated from within and lost its initial radical potential.
Faced with the isolation of exile and the failure of the anti-fascist fronts, Horkheimer broke with his founding project and turned towards a negative philosophy of history. The coming of the next generations of the Frankfurt School allowed for a renewal of the theoretical ambition but at a high price: critique had to adapt to the order of post-war West Germany. With Habermas, critique aims to expand a public space, ignoring the contradictions of social relations; with Honneth, it becomes a therapy of the social, aiming at repairing a world instead of transforming it. From one generation to the next, Critical Theory has turned its back on the analysis of the regressive potential inherent in capitalist modernity. But its initial project has still significant resources to offer for an understanding of the present and for the emancipatory struggles of our time.
Stathis Kouvelakis taught political theory at King's College London from 2002 to 2020. He's now an independent researcher based in Paris. A lifelong militant of the radical left in France and Greece, he is member of the editorial board of the French on-line Marxist journal Contretemps. His previous publications include of Philosophy and Revolution. From Kant to Marx and Lenin Reloaded: Toward a Politics of Truth (co-edited with Sebastian Budgen and Slavoj Zizek).
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 19.8.2025 |
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Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 153 x 234 mm |
Gewicht | 800 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie | |
ISBN-10 | 1-80429-529-9 / 1804295299 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-80429-529-8 / 9781804295298 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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