Ideals and Illusions: On Reconstruction and Deconstruction n Contemporary Critical Theory
by Thomas McCarthy
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Volume, measuring approximately 6.5" x 9.5", is bound in green cloth, with stamped black lettering to spine. Name of previous owner is discretely written at top edge of front flyleaf. Book is otherwise in fine condition, with solid binding, clean and bright pages. Dust jacket, in mylar cover, is in fine condition. x/254 pages.
"These lucid and closely reasoned studies of the thought of Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Jürgen Habermas, and Richard Rorty provide a coherent analysis of major pathways in recent critical theory. They defend a position analogous to Kant's - that ideas of reason are both unavoidable presuppositions of thought that have to be carefully reconstructed and persistent sources of illusions that have to be repeatedly deconstructed.
McCarthy examines the critique of impure reason from the complementary viewpoints of the attackers and defenders of Enlightenment rationality. He first analyzes the work of Rorty, Foucault, and Derrida to determine what these radical critics have contributed to our understanding of reason and where they have gone wrong. He explores Habermas's theory of communicative rationality, focusing on the attempt to go beyond hermeneutics, the incorporation of systems theory, the implications of discourse ethics for our understanding of political debate and collective decision making, and the relation of political theology to critical social theory.
The analysis and assessment of Habermas's recent work in "Ideals and Illusions" serves as a sequel to McCarthy's earlier study "The Critical Theory of Jürgen Habermas.""
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- Title
- Ideals and Illusions: On Reconstruction and Deconstruction n Contemporary Critical Theory
- Author
- Thomas McCarthy
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0262132680
- ISBN 13
- 9780262132688
- Publisher
- The MIT Press
- Place of Publication
- Cambridge, Ma
- This edition first published
- 1991
- Keywords
- Cultural Studies, Philosophy
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