Debating Critical Theory

Julia Christ is a permanent researcher at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in Paris, France.Kristina Lepold is an assistant professor at the Department of Philosophy at Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany and currently a visiting scholar at Harvard University, USADaniel Loick is a fellow at the Center for Humanities and Social Change at Humboldt University Berlin, Germany. Titus Stahl is an assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands.

Bringing together leading scholars in contemporary social and political philosophy, this volume takes up the central themes of Axel Honneth's work as a starting point for debating the present and future of critical theory, as a form of socially grounded philosophy for analyzing and critiquing society today.

Julia Christ, Kristina Lepold, Daniel Loick, Titus Stahl: Debating Critical Theory. An IntroductionSection I: CritiqueChapter 1: Raymond Geuss: Realism, Yet AgainChapter 2: Rainer Forst: Kantian Republicanism vs. the Neo-Republican Machine: The Meaning and Practice of Political AutonomyChapter 3: Sally Haslanger: Taking a Stand: Second-Order Social Pathologies or First-Order CritiqueChapter 4: Martin Saar: Immanent Normativity and the Fact of Domination: Notes on "Immanent Critique"Chapter 5: Didier Fassin: Moral Economy - A Critical Reappraisal Chapter 6: Robin Celikates: Radical Civility. Social Struggles and the Domestication of DissentSection II: RecognitionChapter 7: Frederick Neuhouser: Rousseau on the Nature of Social InequalityChapter 8: Martin Hartmann: Repressive Empathy? A Plea for ContextualizationChapter 9: Joel Whitebook: On Human SociabilitySection III: Social FreedomChapter 10: Bruno Karsenti: Ethical Life and Anomy. From Social Philosophy to Sociology of the StateChapter 11: David Miller: Socialism and the Nation-StateChapter 12: Seyla Benhabib: Hegel's Concept of the Person and International Human RightsChapter 13: Beate Roessler: Fashioning Our Selves? On understanding and criticizing the digitized societyChapter 14: Christoph Menke: The Crisis of Liberalism: The Dialectic of Politics and PoliceSection IV: ProgressChapter 15: Philip Kitcher: John Dewey Goes to Frankfurt. Pragmatism, Critical Theory, and the Invisibility of Moral/Social ProblemsChapter 16: Christopher F. Zurn: Political Progress: Piecemeal, Pragmatic, And ProcessualChapter 17: Amy Allen: Psychoanalysis and the Critique of Progress