Reconciliation and reification : freedom's semblance and actuality from Hegel to contemporary critical theory / Todd Hedrick.
2019
HM480 .H44 2019
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Title
Reconciliation and reification : freedom's semblance and actuality from Hegel to contemporary critical theory / Todd Hedrick.
Author
Hedrick, Todd, 1978- author.
ISBN
9780190634056 (electronic book)
Published
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2019.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource.
Call Number
HM480 .H44 2019
Dewey Decimal Classification
303.4
Summary
The critical theory tradition has, since its inception, sought to distinguish its perspective on society from more purely descriptive or normative approaches 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. Yet it has struggled to specify this emancipatory interest in a way that avoids being either excessively utopian or overly accommodating to existing society. Despite the fact that Hegel's concept of reconciliation is normally thought to run aground on the latter horn of this dilemma, this text argues that reconciliation is the best available conceptualization of this emancipatory interest.
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The critical theory tradition has, since its inception, sought to distinguish its perspective on society from more purely descriptive or normative approaches 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. Yet it has struggled to specify this emancipatory interest in a way that avoids being either excessively utopian or overly accommodating to existing society. Despite the fact that Hegel's concept of reconciliation is normally thought to run aground on the latter horn of this dilemma, this text argues that reconciliation is the best available conceptualization of this emancipatory interest.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on March 13, 2019).
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Oxford scholarship online.
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Print version: 9780190634025
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