Reason After Its Eclipse: On Late Critical Theory by Jay, Martin
Reason After Its Eclipse: On Late Critical Theory by Jay, Martin

Reason After Its Eclipse: On Late Critical Theory

Martin Jay tackles a question as old as Plato and still pressing today: what is reason, and...
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Author: Martin Jay
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Reason After Its Eclipse: On Late Critical Theory by Jay, Martin

Reason After Its Eclipse: On Late Critical Theory

$174.51
Reason After Its Eclipse: On Late Critical Theory by Jay, Martin

Reason After Its Eclipse: On Late Critical Theory

$174.51
Author: Martin Jay
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description
Martin Jay tackles a question as old as Plato and still pressing today: what is reason, and what roles does and should it have in human endeavor? Applying the tools of intellectual history, he examines the overlapping, but not fully compatible, meanings that have accrued to the term reason over two millennia, homing in on moments of crisis, critique, and defense of reason.

After surveying Western ideas of reason from the ancient Greeks through Kant, Hegel, and Marx, Jay engages at length with the ways leading theorists of the Frankfurt School--Horkheimer, Marcuse, Adorno, and most extensively Habermas--sought to salvage a viable concept of reason after its apparent eclipse. They despaired, in particular, over the decay in the modern world of reason into mere instrumental rationality. When reason becomes a technical tool of calculation separated from the values and norms central to daily life, then choices become grounded not in careful thought but in emotion and will--a mode of thinking embraced by fascist movements in the twentieth century.

Is there a more robust idea of reason that can be defended as at once a philosophical concept, a ground of critique, and a norm for human emancipation? Jay explores at length the ommunicative rationality advocated by Habermas and considers the range of arguments, both pro and con, that have greeted his work.

Author: Martin Jay
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Published: 04/21/2016
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.00w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780299306502


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Choice 08/01/2016

About the Author
Martin Jay is the Sidney Hellman Ehrman Professor Emeritus of History at the University of California, Berkeley. His many books include The Dialectical Imagination, Marxism and Totality, and The Virtues of Mendacity.
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