Refiguring Critical Theory: JYrgen Habermas and the Possibilities of Political Change [Paperback]

Refiguring Critical Theoryoffers some thoughts about the nature of democracy and the possibilities of individual and collective self-determination. The text traces theories of the relationship between being and consciousness from Marx through Lukacs and the Frankfurt School to Habermas' recent workThe Theory of Communicative Action. J.Craig Hanks argues that an analysis of Habermas' work will be incomplete if we do not understand it as growing out of a tradition of radical political thinking (from Hegel through Marx and the early Critical Theorists).J. Craig Hanksis Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Southwest Texas State University.

Chapter 1 Preface
Chapter 2 Acknowledgments
Chapter 3 The Origins of the Theory of Inner Colonization
Chapter 4 The Frankfurt School: The Critique of Instrumental Rationality
Chapter 5 Habermas' Initial Reformulation of Critical Theory
Chapter 6 The Colonization of the Lifeworld
Chapter 7 Towards a Critical Theory of Habermas
Chapter 8 Thinking the Totality: Habermas and Post-Structuralism
Chapter 9 Some Concluding Thoughts: Salvaging Critical Theory, or the Necessity of Coalitions
Chapter 10 Notes
Chapter 11 Bibliography
Chapter 12 Index
Chapter 13 About the Author