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Postnational Identity - Critical Theory and Existential Philosophy in Habermas, Kierkegaard, and Havel (Paperback)
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Postnational Identity - Critical Theory and Existential Philosophy in Habermas, Kierkegaard, and Havel (Paperback)
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The Second Edition Contradictory interpretations have been applied
to history-making events that led to the end of the Cold War:
Vaclav Havel, using Kierkegaardian terms, called the demise of
totalitarianism in East-Central Europe an "existential revolution"
(i.e. an awakening of human responsibility, spirit, and reason),
while others hailed it as a victory for the "New World Order."
Regardless of one's point of view, however, it is clear that the
global landscape has been dramatically altered. Where once the
competition between capitalism and communism provided a basis for
establishing political- and self-identity, today the destructive
forces of nationalist identity and religious and secular
fundamentalism are filling the void. Offering the most extensive
examination of Habermas's and Kierkegaard's critiques of
nationalist identity available, Postnational Identity dramatically
confronts the traditional view of existential philosophy as
antisocial and uncritical. This book shows how Kierkegaardian
theory and practice of radically honest communication allows us to
rethink the existential in terms of Habermas's communicative
action, and vice versa. As the author explains, the foundations of
his work in the critical theory and existential philosophy, brought
together in this book, engender two forms of suspicion of the
present age. The critical theorist, such as Jurgen Habermas,
unmasks the forms in which social and cultural life become
systema-tically distorted by the imperatives of political power and
economic gain. The existential critic, like Soren Kierkegaard and
Vaclav Havel, is suspicious of the various ways in which
individuals deceive themselves or other people. This study aims to
integrate Kierkegaard's and Havel's existential critique of motives
informing human identity formation with Habermas's critique of the
colonialization of fragmented, anomic modern life by systems of
power and money... The author's argument is that existential
critique and social critique complement each other and overcome
their respective limitations. One of the first works to treat
seriously the existential thought of Havel, the book will hold
enormous appeal for students and professionals involved in
existential philosophy, critical theory, philosophy, and, more
generally, political science, literary theory, communications, and
cultural studies.
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