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Disrespect: The Normative Foundations of Critical Theory

ISBN: 978-0-7456-2905-6
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296 pages
May 2007, Polity
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  • Contents

  • I. The Tasks of Social Philosophy

  • Pathologies of the Social: The Past and Present of Social Philosophy

  • The Possibility of a Disclosing Critique of Society: The Dialectic of Enlightenment in Light of Current Debates in Social Criticism

  • The Social Dynamics Of Disrespect: On The Location Of Critical Theory Today

  • Moral Consciousness and Class Domination: Some Problems in the Analysis of Hidden Morality

  • II. Morality and Recognition

  • The Other of Justice: Habermas and the Ethical Challenge of Postmodernism.

    Between Aristotle and Kant: Recognition and Moral Obligation


  • Between Justice and Affection: The Family as a Field of Moral Disputes

  • Love and Morality: On the Moral Content of Emotional Ties

  • Decentered Autonomy: The Subject After the Fall

  • III. Problems of Political Philosophy

  • Is Universalism a Moral Trap? The Presuppositions and Limits of a Politics of Human Rights

  • Democracy as Reflexive Cooperation: John Dewey and the Theory of Democracy Today

  • Negative Freedom and Cultural Belonging: An Unhealthy Tension in the Political Philosophy of Isaiah Berlin

  • Post-traditional Communities: A Conceptual Proposal