Foucault Contra Habermas: Recasting the Dialogue Between Genealogy and Critical Theory

ISBN-13: 9780803977716 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 224 str.

Samantha Ashenden; David Owen; S. Ashenden

Opis

The contributors to this innovative volume extend, expound and explain the key areas of social theory long debated between Foucault and Habermas.

Spis treści

Introduction - Samantha Ashenden and David Owen
Foucault, Habermas and the Politics of Critique
Orientation and Enlightenment - David Owen
An Essay on Critique and Genealogy
Critical Spirituality - Thomas Osborne
On Ethics and Politics in the Later Foucault
Pas de deux - Daniel W Conway
Habermas and Foucault in Genealogical Communication
To Think and Act Differently - James Tully
Foucault's Four Reciprocal Objections to Habermas' Theory
Questions of Criticism - Samantha Ashenden
Habermas and Foucault on Civil Society and Resistance
Normalizing Democracy - Mitchell Dean
Foucault and Habermas on Democracy, Liberalism and Law
The Agony and the Ecstasy - Simon Thompson
Foucault, Habermas and the Problem of Recognition

O autorze

Samantha Ashenden is Senior Lecturer in Sociology. She has a BA (Hons) Applied Social Science from Kingston University, an M.Phil in Social and Political Theory from the University of Cambridge, and a Ph.D in Sociology from the University of London. She has published on problems of power, authority and legitimacy within constitutional states, the role of expertise in contemporary governance, and on feminist theory and child sexual abuse. She has taught on the London Consortium Ph.D Programme, and at the Architectural Association School of Architecture, as well as at Queen Mary University of London, the University of North London, and Kingston University. Sam is currently Chair of the BA Politics, Philosophy and History. She is the Managing Editor of the journal Economy and Society and is reviews editor for the journal Critical Review of International Social and Political PhilosophyDavid Owen is lecturer in politics at the University of Southampton. His previous publications include Maturity and Modernity (1994) and Nietzsche, Politics and Modernity (1995).

CONTRIBUTORS OUTSIDE WESTERN HEMISPHERE

Samanta Ashenden Birkbeck College University of London

Paul Connolly University of Ulster

Mitchell Dean Macquarrie University

Peter Jowers University of the West of England

Thomas Osborne University of Bristol

Ralph Schroeder Royal Holloway College University of London

Nigel South University of Essex

Sean Watson University of the West of England

Malcolm Waters University of Tasmania