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Record Nr.

UNINA9910817346503321

Autore

Kompridis Nikolas

Titolo

Critique and disclosure : critical theory between past and future / / Nikolas Kompridis

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, c2006

ISBN

0-262-26343-2

1-282-09844-6

9786612098444

0-262-27742-5

1-4294-5789-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (354 p.)

Disciplina

142

Soggetti

Criticism (Philosophy)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-318) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Preface -- Key to Habermas and Heidegger Citations -- I What Is Critical Theory For . . . -- 1 - Crisis and Critique -- 2 - The Problem of Beginning Anew -- 3 - Modernity's Relation to Time -- 4 - Renewing the Tradition -- 5 - A Paradigm in Distress -- 6 - Reappropriating the Idea of "World Disclosure" -- II Dependent Freedom -- 1 - Disclosure and Intersubjectivity -- 2 - Freedom and Intelligibility -- 3 - Entschlossenheit as Disclosure -- 4 - Recovering the Everyday -- 5 - "To Make Conscious a Murky Reality" -- III Another Voice of Reason -- 1 - A New Orientation for the Critique of Reason -- 2 - The Metacritique of Disclosure -- 3 - Invoking the "Other" of Reason -- 4 - The Aestheticizing Strategy -- 5 - The Extraordinary Everyday -- 6 - World-Disclosing Arguments? -- 7 - The Debunking Strategy -- 8 - The Annexing Strategy -- 9 - The Test of Disclosure -- IV The Business of Philosophy -- 1 - Philosophy: Overburdened or Shortchanged? -- 2 - Guardian of Rationality? Defender of the Lifeworld? -- 3 - Philosophy's Virtue: Knowing When to Speak -- 4 Cultural Authority -- 5 - Philosophy's Kind of Writing -- 6 - Two Kinds of Fallibilism -- V Alternative Sources of Normativity -- 1 - Disclosure, Change, and the New -- 2 - Receptivity, Not Passivity -- 3 - Self-Decentering -- 4 -



The Possibility-Disclosing Role of Reason -- VI . . . in Times of Need? -- 1 - An Aversion to Critique and the Exhaustion of Utopian Energies -- 2 - Disclosure as (Intimate) Critique -- 3 - Critical Theory's Time -- 4 - Suppressed Romanticism (Inheritance without Testament) -- Notes -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

A provocatively argued call for shifting the emphasis of critical theory from Habermasian "critique," restricted to normative clarification, to "disclosure," a possibility-enhancing approach that draws on and reinterprets ideas of Heidegger.