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Reason after Its Eclipse - On Late Critical Theory (Paperback)
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Reason after Its Eclipse - On Late Critical Theory (Paperback)
Series: George L. Mosse Series in the History of European Culture, Sexuality, and Ideas
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Martin Jay tackles a question as old as Plato and still pressing
today: what is reason, and what roles does and should it have in
human endeavor? Applying the tools of intellectual history, he
examines the overlapping, but not fully compatible, meanings that
have accrued to the term ""reason"" over two millennia, homing in
on moments of crisis, critique, and defense of reason. After
surveying Western ideas of reason from the ancient Greeks through
Kant, Hegel, and Marx, Jay engages at length with the ways leading
theorists of the Frankfurt School Horkheimer, Marcuse, Adorno, and
most extensively Habermas sought to salvage a viable concept of
reason after its apparent eclipse. They despaired, in particular,
over the decay in the modern world of reason into mere instrumental
rationality. When reason becomes a technical tool of calculation
separated from the values and norms central to daily life, then
choices become grounded not in careful thought but in emotion and
will a mode of thinking embraced by fascist movements in the
twentieth century. Is there a more robust idea of reason that can
be defended as at once a philosophical concept, a ground of
critique, and a norm for human emancipation? Jay explores at length
the ommunicative rationality advocated by Habermas and considers
the range of arguments, both pro and con, that have greeted his
work.
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