Michael J. Thompson

Descent of the Dialectic

Phronetic Criticism in an Age of Nihilism

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Produktbeschreibung

This book reconstructs the concept and practice of dialectics as a means of grounding a critical theory of society. At the center of this project is the thesis of phronetic criticism or a form of reason that is able to synthesize human value with objective rationality.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm
• Gewicht: 620g
• ISBN-13: 9781032011998
• ISBN-10: 1032011998
• Artikelnr.: 70145927

Autorenporträt

Michael J. Thompson is Professor of Political Theory at William Paterson University and a psychoanalyst in New York City. His recent books include The Domestication of Critical Theory, The Specter of Babel: A Reconstruction of Political Judgment, and Twilight of the Self: The Decline of the Individual in Late Capitalism.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Introduction Part 1: Nihilism and the Descent of Dialectics 1. On
Dialectical Reason and its Descent 2. Reification as an Ontological Concept
3. Value Irrationality and the Failures of Deliberative Democracy 4. On the
Concept of Social Pathology Part 2: Dialectics, Ontology and Phronetic
Criticism 5. Negation without Ontology: Rethinking Adorno's Late Philosophy
6. Ontologizing the Dialectic: Lukács on the Foundations for a Marxian
Ethics 7. Toward an Ontology of Social Relations 8. Critical Social
Ontology and the Practice of Phronetic Criticism