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Reflection Revisited
James C. Swindal
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Hardback. Reflection Revisited examines Habermas's own development of the theory of emancipative reflection and analyzes how he applies reflection to the problems of ethics and personal identity development. Series: Perspectives in Continental Philosophy. Num Pages: 298 pages, 23 cm. BIC Classification: HPCF; JMR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 23. Weight in Grams: 573.
Jurgen Habermas, particularly in his master work Theory of Communicative Action (1981), takes us several of the basic insights of the philosophical tradition of reflection initiated by Kant, and sets it on a new and highly original emancipative path. He claims that reflection not only can determine the limits of reasoning about thought and action, but also can grasp the limits that human agents face in freeing themselves form unjust social and economic structures. Human agents can engage in constructive and emancipative communication with others by determining the limits not of their own consciousness, but of the intersubjective structures shared ... Read more
Jurgen Habermas, particularly in his master work Theory of Communicative Action (1981), takes us several of the basic insights of the philosophical tradition of reflection initiated by Kant, and sets it on a new and highly original emancipative path. He claims that reflection not only can determine the limits of reasoning about thought and action, but also can grasp the limits that human agents face in freeing themselves form unjust social and economic structures. Human agents can engage in constructive and emancipative communication with others by determining the limits not of their own consciousness, but of the intersubjective structures shared ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
298
Condition
New
Series
Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
Number of Pages
298
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780823218066
SKU
V9780823218066
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About James C. Swindal
James C. Swindal is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at John Carroll University.
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