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Any person who does any unauthorised act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. 'this-worldly' version of critical theory. Thus, rather than grounding critical theory in the normative content of modernity, Habermas retains a transcendental notion of ethics inherent within 'communicative action'. In this respect, modernity merely realizes the transhistorical form of 'ethical life' inherent within language oriented to mutual understanding. To this extent, Habermas shares Marx's attempt to ground critical theory in a 'philosophical anthropology' that imputes aims and interests to humanity in abstraction from historically located aims and interests of participants. This, however, not only serves to absolutize Western sociality (as history's first form of 'post-conventional' sociality), but also Habermas's account of 'communicative action' as the essence of 'ethical life'. In order to bring Habermas's essentialist account of 'communicative action' into proximity with its immanent institutional context, Axel Honneth emphasizes the role of social struggle in expanding the normative content of modernity. To this extent, Honneth a

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Author

Bob Cannon (auth.)

Publisher

Palgrave, formerly Macmillan Press : Macmillan Distribution Ltd. (UK)

Published

2001

Language

EN

ISBN

9781349423484

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Philosophy, Economics, Social Science