Summary
Contents
Subject index
Foucault contra Habermas is an incisive examination of, and a comprehensive introduction to, the debate between Foucault and Habermas over the meaning of enlightenment and modernity. It reprises the key issues in the argument between critical theory and genealogy and is organised around three complementary themes: defining the context of the debate; examining the theoretical and conceptual tools used; and discussing the implications for politics and criticism. In a detailed reply to Habermas' Philosophical Discourse of Modernity, this volume explains the difference between Habermas' philosophical practice and Foucault's between the analytics of truth and the politics of truth. Many of the most difficult arguments in th
The Agony and the Ecstasy: Foucault, Habermas and the Problem of Recognition
The Agony and the Ecstasy: Foucault, Habermas and the Problem of Recognition
Roberto Unger's observation that ‘[w]e present to one another both an unlimited need and an unlimited threat’ (1984: 20) encapsulates a dilemma that is central to human experience. We need each other in order to become human and to sustain our lives as viable projects. Our identities are initially formed by processes of intersubjective recognition, and they are then sustained by practices and institutions which protect that intersubjectivity. But we also threaten one another's existence: we may neglect or isolate others, dominate or assimilate them. In short, we are involved in struggles for recognition – caught up in relations of power in ...
- Loading...