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2016
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Jaeggi, Rahel; Wesche, Tilo (Hg.) (2016): Was ist Kritik?. Symposion "Immanenz und Transzendenz - Konstellationen philosophischer Kritik". 4. Aufl.. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp (Suhrkamp-Taschenbuch Wissenschaft)
2015
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(2015): Hegelian recognition. In: Thesis Eleven 126 (1), S. 100-122. DOI: 10.1177/0725513614567342
Abstract: If we think of recognition as the practical relation consciously enacted by concerned individual subjects as social actors, which allows them to fulfil their intersubjectively valid social roles, this by no means exhausts the significance that recognition is accorded by Hegel. In fact the problem of recognition is central to the understanding and evaluation of Hegel's metaphysical system. Thus a close scrutiny of the presentation of self-consciousness in Phenomenology of Spirit and the interpretative difficulties it poses leads on to the question of the subject and Hegel's distinction between finite, accidental individuals and the true subject in his system: the concept of Spirit, understood not as a separate entity but as a system of relations, objectified in the historical forms of the Absolute Spirit. But what is the price of Hegel's metaphysics of subjectivity? Hegelian recognition signifies the recognition by individuals of recognition in its truth, that is, the self-recognition by finite individuals that they participate in Spirit as the true universal subject to the degree that they recognize their shared world of actions as the world of their own making. Modernity is therefore defined for Hegel as the recognition and realization of 'conscious freedom', whose telos lies in the actualization of universal reciprocal recognition that brings the unfreedom of history to an end. The idea of freedom and the thesis of the 'end of history' remain, however, the preserve of the thinking few. Hegelian recognition and with it Hegel's whole metaphysical system founders on the rock of finitude, on the unfreedom of finite human beings.
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(2015) : The Neo-Idealist Paradigm Shift in Contemporary Critical Theory In: Dahms, Harry F.: Globalization, critique and social theory: Bingle, UK: Emerald Group Publishing Limited (Current perspectives in social theory$$vvolume 33), S. 135-163
Abstract: Purpose - To defend the thesis that critical theory has become unable to call into question and challenge the main impulses of modern capitalist societies. The reason for this is that the capacities of language on the one hand and the hermeneutic processes that underlie the process of "recognition" are insufficient to counter the power of socialization to shape subjectivity and the cognitive and evaluative capacities of subjects. Methodology/approach - I provide a critical reading of the methodology of linguistic and recognitive theories of intersubjectivity by means of a theory of domination derived from Rousseau which shapes the cognitive and epistemic powers of subjects thereby weakening their capacity to be socialized via the media of language and social recognition. Findings - By divorcing our cognitive ideas about the social world from the social-ontological processes that shape and deform it under capitalism, this brand of critical theory succeeds in sealing off the mechanisms of social domination and power relations that were at the heart of the enterprise from its inception. Research limitations/implications - Critical theory must move toward a more comprehensive theory of the social totality in order for it to retain its critical character. Originality/value - The paper questions the main ideas held by the mainstream of critical theory such as its reliance on hermeneutic and linguistic forms of consciousness and social praxis as well as a theoretical reliance on pragmatic theories of mind and Mead's conception of socialization.
2014
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(2014): Kritik von Lebensformen. 1. Aufl., Orig.-Ausg. Berlin: SuhrkampKeywords: Anerkennung, Criticism (Philosophy), Disziplin, Ethik, Favoriten, Honneth und aktuelle Kritische Theorie, Kritik, Kultur- und Geisteswissenschaften / Philosophie, Lebensform, Modelle/Theorien, Moralkritik, Normen, Philosophie, Philosophische Anthropologie, Philosophy, Politik, Politische Ethik, social sciences, Soziale Angemessenheit, Soziale Normen, Sozialphilosophie, Spielregeltheoretische Ansätze, Spielregeltheoretische Anstätze
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(2014): Pierre Bourdieu. Eine systematische Einführung. 1. Aufl.. Berlin: Suhrkamp
Abstract: Hinsichtlich ihrer klaren Diktion und didaktischen Reflektiertheit wirkt diese "systematische Einführung" in das Werk Bourdieus eher reihenuntypisch. Wenn das gut strukturierte Buch des Professors für Soziologie an der HU Berlin dennoch einen konzentrierten, möglichst sozialwissenschaftlich vorgeprägten Leser erfordert, liegt das vor allem am komplexen und vielschichtigen Werk des französischen Soziologen und Philosophen selbst, der sich auch gern auf politische Diskussionen eingelassen hat bzw. diese provozierte. Nach einer kurzen Einführung in Leben und Werk beschreibt Müller fundiert den "analytischen Baukasten" samt der Klärung von Schlüsselbegriffen (u.a. "Struktur", "Habitus", "soziale Felder", "Kapital"). Im 2. Hauptabschnitt analysiert er jeweils in eigenen Kapiteln die bevorzugten empirischen Studien(-felder) Bourdieus (u.a. Bildung, Klasse, Literatur, Ökonomie). Auch wenn dies angesichts der Alternativen bei Reclam (J. Jurt: BA 7/08), Junius (M. Schwingel: ID 25/09) und Metzler ("Bourdieu-Handbuch", ID 48/09) schwer wird, wäre der gelungenen Einführung ein gröe︢rer Leserkreis zu wünschen. (3)
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