This book argues that Jurgen Habermas' critical theory can be
productively developed by incorporating a wider understanding of
fantasy and imagination as part of its conception of communicative
rationality and communicative pathologies. Given that meaning is
generated both linguistically and performatively, MacKendrick
argues that desire and fantasy must be taken into consideration as
constitutive aspects of intersubjective relations. His aim is to
show that Habermasian social theory might plausibly renew its
increasingly severed ties with the early critical theory of the
Frankfurt School by taking account of these features of practice
life, thus simultaneously rekindling the relevance of the nearly
forgotten emancipatory intent in his earlier work and rejuvenating
an emphasis on the contemporary critique of reason. This innovative
new study will be of interest to those focusing on the early
writings of Habermas, the writings of the Frankfurt School, and the
relation between critical theory, hermeneutics, and psychoanalysis.
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