Todd Hedrick (Associate Professor, Associate Professor, Department

Reconciliation and Reification

Freedom's Semblance and Actuality from Hegel to Contemporary Critical Theory

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Produktbeschreibung

This book defends Hegel's concept of "reconciliation" as the best understanding of human beings' emancipatory interest and presents "reification" as a systematic blockage to its realization. Drawing upon psychoanalysis and legal theory, it explores the extent to which recent theories (Rawls, Honneth, Habermas) succeed in spelling out how society could be organized in such a way that reconciliation between individual and society could be realized on somethingapproaching a universal basis.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 165mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 528g
• ISBN-13: 9780190634025
• ISBN-10: 0190634022
• Artikelnr.: 53065095

Autorenporträt

Todd Hedrick is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Michigan State University. He is the author of Rawls and Habermas: Reason, Pluralism, and the Claims of Political Philosophy (Stanford University Press, 2010). He has published essays on critical social theory, the history of political philosophy, legal theory, and critical theory and psychoanalysis.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* Chapter 1: Reconciling individuality and sociality in Hegel's
Philosophy of Right
* Chapter 2: Totality fractured, reconciliation deferred: from Marx to
Lukács, to Horkheimer and Adorno
* Chapter 3: Rawls' liberal right Hegelianism
* Chapter 4: Actualizing freedom without reconciliation in Honneth
* Chapter 5: Reification and reconciliation in Habermas' theory of law
and democracy
* Concluding remarks