Description: Reconciliation and Reification : Freedom's Semblance and Actuality from Hegel to Contemporary Critical Theory, Hardcover by Hedrick, Todd, ISBN 0190634022, ISBN-13 9780190634025, Brand New, Free shipping in the US The critical theory tradition has, since its inception, sought to distinguish its perspective on society by maintaining that persons have a deep-seated interest in the free development of their personality--an interest that can only be realized in and through the rational organization of
society, but which is systematically stymied by existing society. And yet tradition has struggled to specify this emancipatory interest in a way that is neither excessively utopian nor accommodating to existing society. Despite the fact that Hegels concept of reconciliation is normally thought to
run aground on the latter horn of this dilemma, this book argues that reconciliation is the best available conceptualization of emancipatory interest. Todd Hedrick presents Hegels idea of freedom as something actualized in individuals lives through their reconciliation with how society shapes
their roles, prospects, and sense of self; it presents reconciliation as less a matter of philosophical cognition, and more of inclusion in a responsive, transparent political process. Hedrick further introduces the concept of reification, which--through its development in Marx and Lukcs, through
Horkheimer and Adorno--substantiates an increasingly cogent critique of reconciliation as something unachievable within the framework of modern society, as social forces that shape our identities and life prospects come to appear natural, as part of the way things just are.
Giving equal weight to psychoanalysis and legal theory, this work critically appraises the writings of Rawls, Honneth, and Habermas as efforts to spell out a reconciliation more democratic and inclusive than Hegels, yet still sensitive to the reifying effects of legal systems that have become
autonomous and anonymous.
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Book Title: Reconciliation and Reification : Freedom's Semblance and Actualit
Number of Pages: 296 Pages
Publication Name: Reconciliation and Reification : Freedom's Semblance and Actuality from Hegel to Contemporary Critical Theory
Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Subject: Sociology / General, General, Movements / Critical Theory, Interpersonal Relations
Publication Year: 2018
Item Height: 0.9 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 17.6 Oz
Subject Area: Philosophy, Social Science, Psychology
Author: Todd Hedrick
Item Length: 9.2 in
Item Width: 6.5 in
Format: Hardcover
