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Bernhard Forchtner - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Critique, the discourse–historical approach, and the Frankfurt School
Critical Discourse Studies, 2011Co-Authors: Bernhard ForchtnerAbstract:Critical discourse analysis (CDA) stands on the shoulder of giants – different giants – in order to answer how its critique, its ethico-moral stance, is theoretically grounded and justified. Concerning this question, this article explores the role of the Frankfurt School in the discourse–historical approach (DHA). Although references to the Frankfurt School can regularly be found in the DHA's canon, I argue that an even more comprehensive discussion would help in combating accusations of the DHA being unprincipled and politically biased, and further enrich the DHA's toolkit for empirical analysis. After reviewing existing references to the Frankfurt School, I discuss this intellectual tradition – from Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno's The dialectic of enlightenment to Jurgen Habermas's language-philosophy – showing to what extent it can(not) ground the DHA's emancipatory and socially transformative aims. Thereby, I illustrate how the DHA's critical standard is not simply based on a coincidental, thou...
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critique the discourse historical approach and the Frankfurt School
Critical Discourse Studies, 2011Co-Authors: Bernhard ForchtnerAbstract:Critical discourse analysis (CDA) stands on the shoulder of giants – different giants – in order to answer how its critique, its ethico-moral stance, is theoretically grounded and justified. Concerning this question, this article explores the role of the Frankfurt School in the discourse–historical approach (DHA). Although references to the Frankfurt School can regularly be found in the DHA's canon, I argue that an even more comprehensive discussion would help in combating accusations of the DHA being unprincipled and politically biased, and further enrich the DHA's toolkit for empirical analysis. After reviewing existing references to the Frankfurt School, I discuss this intellectual tradition – from Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno's The dialectic of enlightenment to Jurgen Habermas's language-philosophy – showing to what extent it can(not) ground the DHA's emancipatory and socially transformative aims. Thereby, I illustrate how the DHA's critical standard is not simply based on a coincidental, thou...
Martin Weber - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the critical social theory of the Frankfurt School and the social turn in ir
Review of International Studies, 2005Co-Authors: Martin WeberAbstract:Critical theory in the Frankfurt School mould has made various inroads into IR theorising, and provided many a stimulus to attempts at redressing the ‘positivist’ imbalance in the discipline. Many of the conceptual offerings of the Frankfurt School perspective have received critical attention in IR theory debates, and while these are still ongoing, the purpose of this discussion is not to attempt to contribute by furthering either methodological interests, or politico-philosophical inquiry. Instead, I focus on the near omission of the social-theoretic aspect of the work especially of Juergen Habermas. I argue that a more in-depth exploration of critical social theory has considerable potential in the context of the ‘social turn’ in IR theory. The lack of attention to this potential is arguably due in part to the importance of Habermas' contribution to cosmopolitan normative theory, and the status held by the cosmopolitan-communitarian debate as a key site of critical IR debate for many years throughout the 1990s. The productivity of the Habermasian conception of the discourse theory of morality within this set of concerns has been obvious, and continues.
Ryan Gunderson - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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environmental sociology and the Frankfurt School 1 reason and capital
Environmental Sociology, 2015Co-Authors: Ryan GundersonAbstract:In a two-article project, I demonstrate that the first-generation Frankfurt School’s critical theory can conceptually inform sociological examinations of societal–environmental relations and address contemporary debates and issues in environmental sociology. This first companion article explains why Horkheimer, Adorno, and Marcuse persistently tied the domination of nature to the domination of human beings in the context of two interrelated processes: (1) the instrumentalization of reason and (2) the development of capitalism. The Frankfurt School argued that capitalism was unsustainable due to growth dependence and provided an early analysis of environmentalism’s co-optation. While early critical theory argued that structural forces are primarily responsible for environmental degradation, they did not neglect the role of social psychological and cultural forces in maintaining these structures. In addition to clarifying and systematizing these broader contributions, I provide concrete examples of how thei...
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a defense of the grand hotel abyss the Frankfurt School s nonideal theory
Acta Sociologica, 2015Co-Authors: Ryan GundersonAbstract:The menace of pessimism in early critical theory is often criticized for being antithetical to Marxism’s emancipatory vision and/or implicitly conservative, a position memorably illustrated in Lukacs’ appraisal of Adorno as a resident of Schopenhauer’s “Grand Hotel Abyss,” where one enjoys a nihilistically detached yet aesthetically pleasurable stay without mounting any real challenges to the miseries of the real world. This stance, reworked in numerous assessments of the first-generation Frankfurt School, presupposes that radicalism and pessimism are antagonistic positions. By rethinking early critical theory in light of discussions of “nonideal” alternatives to the ideal theories of liberal egalitarian thinkers, I argue that the Frankfurt School salvaged the prospects of emancipation precisely due to their view from the “Grand Hotel Abyss.” Through their gloomy reply to Marx in nonideal conditions, the Frankfurt School’s negative views paradoxically preserved the possibility for historical alternatives ...
William E Scheuerman - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the Frankfurt School and american social thought
International Studies Review, 2010Co-Authors: William E ScheuermanAbstract:The Frankfurt School in Exile. By Wheatland Thomas. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2009. 415 pp., $39.95 paperback (ISBN-13: 978-0-816-65367-6). It is hoped that the University of Minnesota Press's editors will come across this review because somebody should at least tell them that they have done a disservice to this provocative book by a young scholar. The book's boring title not only is likely to prove amiss at garnering the attention the volume deserves, but it also fails to capture what the author has accomplished. We already have a number of excellent intellectual histories of the interdisciplinary Frankfurt School of critical theory “in exile” (Jay 1996; Wiggershaus 1998). And there are already plenty of studies devoted to the contributions of its main figures (i.e., Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Erich Fromm, Max Horkheimer, Otto Kirchheimer, Leo Lowenthal, Herbert Marcuse, Franz L. Neumann, and Friedrich Pollock) from the 1930s and 1940s, when Nazism forced the neo-Marxist Institute for Social Research to relocate to Morningside Heights in New York City. Fortunately, Wheatland has done something far more useful than provide yet another overview of the Institute's sprawling work. Wheatland is an historian who fortunately still takes old-fashioned archival work seriously. Drawing on a massive range of time-consuming interviews, as well as archival materials from myriad locations in both Europe and North America, …
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Frankfurt School perspectives on globalization democracy and the law
2007Co-Authors: William E ScheuermanAbstract:Introduction: Why the Frankfurt School? Part 1:: Franz L. Neumann, Globalization, and the Rule of Law 1. Franz Neumann: Legal Theorist of Globalization? 2. Economic Globalization and the Rule of Law 3. Transnational Labor Standards: The U.S. Experience 4. Neumann v. Habermas: The Frankfurt School and the Case of the Rule of Law Part 2: Jurgen Habermas, Globalization, and Deliberative Democracy 5. Between Radicalism and Resignation: Democratic Theory in Habermas' Between Facts and Norms 6. Prospects and Perils of Proceduralist Law 7. Globalization and the Antinomies of Habermasian Deliberative Democracy 8. Cosmopolitan Democracy: Democracy Without Law? 9. Global Governance Without Global Government?
Joel Anderson - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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situating axel honneth in the Frankfurt School tradition
Axel Honneth: Critical Essays with a Reply by Axel Honneth, 2011Co-Authors: Joel AndersonAbstract:The author begins by providing a thumbnail sketch of some of the central themes in the first generation of the Frankfurt School. He then looks in some detail at how Jurgen Habermas and members of his generation transformed critical social theory, taking it in several new directions. The author then takes up Honneth's approach, arguing that it involves a retrieval of some original Frankfurt School themes, but against the irreversible background of the Habermasian landscape and in a political and intellectual climate that gives his approach its specifically third-generational character. In addition, talk of distinct 'generations' within the Frankfurt School is misleading insofar as Habermas and Honneth are still both actively pursuing their research programmes. Members of the second and third generations continue to respond to each other's innovations, as well as to the ongoing reappropriation of first-generation thinkers. Keywords: Axel Honneth; Frankfurt School; Jurgen Habermas; second generation; third generation
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the third generation of the Frankfurt School
Intellectual History Newsletter, 2000Co-Authors: Joel AndersonAbstract:Critical social theory in Germany is currently in a period of transition. The 75-year-old "Frankfurt School" tradition was led first by Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno, and then by Jurgen Habermas. Although Habermas and other members of the "second generation" remain active, his 1994 retirement marked the end of an era and the emergence of a new generation in critical social theory, led by Axel Honneth. Though the criteria for a generation are no less problematic than those of a "School" - there are thorny issue of who's in and who's out, or whether members of the new generation have so "betrayed" the tradition as to not belong to it - this changing of the guard allows some historical perspective on key turns in critical social theory in Germany.The present essay aims to characterize this new generation of German critical social theorists both in its distinctiveness and in its continuity with the broad Frankfurt School tradition.
