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The future of critical theory between reason and power Reply to Amy Allen

Miriam Bankovsky
- 04 Feb 2014 - 
- Vol. 120, Iss: 1, pp 26-42
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In this paper, Allen presents Adorno's and Horkheimer's Dialectic of Enlightenment as a productive movement between a commitment to the project of reason and a sensitivity to the effects on reason of power.
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Amy Allen presents Adorno’s and Horkheimer’s Dialectic of Enlightenment as a productive movement between a commitment to the project of reason and a sensitivity to the effects on reason of power an...

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Recognition Theory and Contemporary French Moral and Political Philosophy: Reopening the Dialogue by Miriam Bankovsky and Alice Le Goff (eds). Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2012. 248pp., £70.00, ISBN 978 0 7190 8356 3

TL;DR: In this paper, a collection of essays about the development of theories of recognition in French philosophy is presented, with a focus on contemporary French thinkers who continue to explore the concept of recognition today, including Merleau-Ponty, Derrida, Levinas, Foucault and Bourdieu.
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Dialectic of enlightenment : philosophical fragments

TL;DR: The Dialectic of Enlightenment as discussed by the authors is the most influential publication of the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory and was published privately during the Second World War and circulated privately, it appeared in a printed edition in Amsterdam in 1947.
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Critical Theory

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Philosophy in a Time of Terror: Dialogues with Jurgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida

TL;DR: The idea for "Philosophy in a Time of Terror" was born hours after the attacks on 9/11 and was realized just weeks later when Giovanna Borradori sat down with Jurgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida in New York City, in separate interviews, to evaluate the significance of the most destructive terrorist act ever perpetrated as discussed by the authors.