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the cambridge companion to CRITICAL THEORY CriticalTheoryconstitutesoneofthemajorintellectualtra- ditions of the twentieth century and is centrally important forphilosophy,politicaltheory,aestheticsandthetheoryof art,thestudyofmodernEuropeanliteraturesandmusic,the history of ideas, sociology, psychology, and cultural stud- ies. In this volume an international team of distinguished contributors examines the major figures in Critical The- ory,includingHorkheimer,Adorno,Marcuse,Benjamin,and Habermas, as well as lesser known but important thinkers such as Pollock and Neumann. The volume surveys the shared philosophical concerns that have given impetus to Critical Theory throughout its history, while at the same time showing the diversity among its proponents that con- tributes so much to its richness as a philosophical school. The result is an illuminating overview of the entire history ofCriticalTheoryinthetwentiethcentury,anexamination of its central conceptual concerns, and an in-depth discus- sionofitsfutureprospects. othervolumesintheseriesofcambridgecompanions ABELARD Editedby jeffrey e. brower and kevin guilfoy AQUINAS Editedby norman kretzmann and eleonore stump HANNAH ARENDT Editedby dana villa ARISTOTLE Editedby jonathan barnes AUGUSTINE Editedby eleonore stump and norman kretzmann BACON Editedby markku peltonen SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR Editedby claudia card BRENTANO Editedby dale jacquette DARWIN Editedby jonathan hodge and gregory radick DESCARTES Editedby john cottingham DUNS SCOTUS Editedby thomas williams EARLY GREEK PHILOSOPHY Editedby a. a. long FEMINISM IN PHILOSOPHY Editedby miranda fricker and jennifer hornsby FOUCAULT Editedby gary gutting FREUD Editedby jerome neu GADAMER Editedby robert j. dostal GALILEO Editedby peter machamer GERMAN IDEALISM Editedby karl ameriks GREEK AND ROMAN PHILOSOPHY Editedby david sedley HABERMAS Editedby stephen k. white HEGEL Editedby frederick beiser HEIDEGGER Editedby charles guignon HOBBES Editedby tom sorell HUME Editedby david fate norton HUSSERL Editedby barry smith and david woodruff smith WILLIAM JAMES Editedby ruth anna putnam KANT Editedby paul guyer KIERKEGAARD Editedby alastair hannay and gordon marino LEIBNIZ Editedby nicholas jolley LEVINAS Editedby simon critchley and robert bernasconi LOCKE Editedby vere chappell MALEBRANCHE Editedby steven nadler MARX Editedby terrell carver MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHY Editedby a. s. m grade c MEDIEVAL JEWISH PHILOSOPHY Editedby daniel h. frank and oliver leaman MILL Editedby john skorupski NEWTON Editedby i. bernard cohen and george e. smith NIETZSCHE Editedby bernd magnus and kathleen higgins OCKHAM Editedby paul vincent spade PASCAL Editedby nicholas hammond PLATO Editedby richard kraut PLOTINUS Editedby lloyd p. gerson QUINE Editedby roger f. gibson RAWLS Editedby samuel freeman THOMAS REID Editedby terence cuneo and rene van woudenberg ROUSSEAU Editedby patrick riley BERTRAND RUSSELL Editedby nicholas griffin SARTRE Editedby christina howells SCHOPENHAUER Editedby christopher janaway THE SCOTTISH ENLIGHTENMENT Editedby alexander broadie SPINOZA Editedby don garrett THE STOICS Editedby brad inwood WITTGENSTEIN Editedby hans sluga and david stern The Cambridge Companion to C R I T I C A L T H E O RY Editedby Fred Rush UniversityofNotreDame publishedbythepresssyndicateoftheuniversityofcambridge ThePittBuilding,TrumpingtonStreet,Cambridge,UnitedKingdom cambridgeuniversitypress TheEdinburghBuilding,Cambridge,cb22ru,UK 40West20thStreet,NewYork,ny10011–4211,USA 477WilliamstownRoad,PortMelbourne,vic3207,Australia RuizdeAlarco´n13,28014Madrid,Spain DockHouse,TheWaterfront,CapeTown8001,SouthAfrica http://www.cambridge.org (cid:1)C CambridgeUniversityPress2004 Thisbookisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithout thewrittenpermissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. 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SystemLATEX2ε [tb] AcataloguerecordforthisbookisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary isbn0521816602hardback isbn0521016894paperback contents List of contributors page ix Acknowledgments xii Chronology xiii Abbreviations xvi Introduction 1 fred rush 1 Conceptual foundations of early Critical Theory 6 fred rush 2 Benjamin, Adorno, and the decline of the aura 40 michael rosen 3 The dialectic of enlightenment 57 julian roberts 4 The marriage of Marx and Freud: Critical Theory and psychoanalysis 74 joel whitebook 5 Dialectics and the revolutionary impulse 103 raymond geuss 6 “The dead speaking of stones and stars”: Adorno’s Aesthetic Theory 139 j. m. bernstein 7 Critique, state, and economy 165 moishe postone vii viii Contents 8 The transcendental turn: Habermas’s “Kantian pragmatism” 194 kenneth baynes 9 The politics of Critical Theory 219 simone chambers 10 Critical Theory and the analysis of contemporary mass society 248 hauke brunkhorst 11 Critical Theory and poststructuralism: Habermas and Foucault 280 beatrice hanssen 12 The very idea of a critical social science: a pragmatist turn 310 stephen k. white 13 A social pathology of reason: on the intellectual legacy of Critical Theory 336 axel honneth Select bibliography 361 Index 371 contributors kenneth baynes isProfessorofPhilosophyandPoliticalScience atSyracuseUniversity.HeistheauthorofTheNormativeGrounds ofSocialCriticism:Kant,Rawls,Habermas(SUNYPress,1992)and the coeditor of After Philosophy (MIT Press, 1986) and Discourse andDemocracy:EssaysonHabermas’s“BetweenFactsandNorms” (SUNYPress,2002). j. m. bernstein is University Distinguished Professor of Phi- losophy at the New School for Social Research. Among his books are The Fate of Art: Aesthetic Alienation from Kant to Derrida and Adorno (Pennsylvania State University Press, 1992), Recover- ing Ethical Life: Ju¨rgen Habermas and the Future of Critical The- ory (Routledge, 1995), and Adorno: Disenchantment and Ethics (CambridgeUniversityPress,2001). hauke brunkhorst isProfessorofSociologyattheUniversityof Flensburg.HisrecentwritingsincludeHannahArendt(Beck,1999), Einfu¨hrung in die Geschichte politischer Ideen (Fink/UTB, 2001), and Solidarita¨t (Suhrkamp, 2002). His books in English are Adorno andCriticalTheory(UniversityofWalesPress,1999)andSolidarity: From Civic Friendship Towards a Global Legal Community (MIT Press,forthcoming). simone chambers is Associate Professor of Political Science at theUniversityofToronto.SheistheauthorofReasonableDemoc- racy: Ju¨rgen Habermas and the Politics of Discourse (Cornell Uni- versityPress,1996)andhaseditedDeliberation,Democracy,andthe Media(Rowman&Littlefield,2000)andAlternativeConceptionsof CivilSociety(PrincetonUniversityPress,2001). ix x Listofcontributors raymond geussisReaderinPhilosophyattheUniversityofCam- bridge.HeistheauthorofTheIdeaofaCriticalTheory:Habermas andtheFrankfurtSchool(CambridgeUniversityPress,1981),Moral- ity, Culture, and History (Cambridge University Press, 1999), His- toryandIllusioninPolitics(CambridgeUniversityPress,2001),and PublicGoods,PrivateGoods(PrincetonUniversityPress,2001). beatrice hanssen is Professor of German at the University of Georgia,Athens.SheistheauthorofWalterBenjamin’sOtherHis- tory: Of Stones, Animals, Human Beings, and Angels (University ofCaliforniaPress,1998),CritiqueofViolence:BetweenPoststruc- turalismandCriticalTheory(Routledge,2000),andcoeditorofThe Turn to Ethics (Routledge, 2000). She is also coeditor of the series Walter Benjamin Studies, which includes the volumes Walter Ben- jamin and Romanticism (Continuum, 2002) and Walter Benjamin andtheArcadesProject(Continuum,forthcoming). axel honneth is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Frankfurt and the Director of the Institute for Social Research. His books in English translation include Critique of Power (MIT Press, 1993),TheFragmentedWorldoftheSocial(SUNYPress,1995),and TheStruggleforRecognition(MITPress,1996). moishe postone isAssociateProfessorofModernHistoryanda member of the Committee for Jewish Studies at the University of Chicago.HeistheauthorofTime,Labor,andSocialDomination:A Reinterpretation of Marx’s Critical Theory (Cambridge University Press, 1993) and coeditor of Catastrophe and Meaning: The Holo- caustandtheTwentiethCentury(UniversityofChicagoPress,2003) aswellasofBourdieu:CriticalPerspectives(UniversityofChicago Press,1993). julian roberts is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Munich. His books include Walter Benjamin (Macmillan, 1982) and The Logic of Reflection: German Philosophy in the Twentieth Century(YaleUniversityPress,1992). michael rosen isaFellowatLincolnCollege,Oxford.Heisthe authorofHegel’sDialecticanditsCriticism(CambridgeUniversity Press, 1982) and On Voluntary Servitude: False Consciousness and theTheoryofIdeology(HarvardUniversityPress,1996).
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