Contemporary Critical Theory and Methodology

by Strydom; Piet

• ISBN13: 9780415548274
• ISBN10: 0415548276
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-04-07
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Contemporary Critical Theory and Methodology starts from the recent recovery of critical theory Young-Hegelian heritage and draws out the significance of this achievement for the methodology of critical theory. It covers both the general methodological structure of critical theory and the most important methods employed today to generate critical social scientific knowledge. The book uniquely brings together carefully selected essays from critical theorists and pragmatists, including Jurgen Habermas, Karl-Otto Apel, Axel Honneth, Thomas McCarthy, John Bohman, Ulrich Beck, Klaus Eder, Hauke Brunkhorst, Max Miller and Seyla Benhabib, which are accompanied by the editors penetrating introduction and running commentary.

Table of Contents

List of figures and tables	p. x
Preface and acknowledgements	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Metatheoretical foundations	p. 15
Classical foundations	p. 17
Appropriation of the classical foundations	p. 34
Contemporary Critical Theory and pragmatism	p. 56
Immanent transcendence as key concept	p. 87
Methodology	p. 107
Contemporary critical theorists on methodology	p. 109
The methodological framework of Critical Theory	p. 134
Varieties of critique: Critical Theory compared	p. 166
Methodology in action	p. 198
Notes	p. 230
Bibliography	p. 233
Index	p. 243
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