Descent of the dialectic : phronetic criticism in an age of nihilism / Michael J. Thompson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thompson, Michael J., 1973- author.

Contributor:

Taylor & Francis eBooks

Series:

Routledge studies in contemporary philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy and social sciences.

Nihilism (Philosophy).

Dialectical materialism.

Common good.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 234 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, 2025.

Biography/History:

Michael J. Thompson is Professor of Political Theory at William Paterson University and a psychoanalyst in New York City. His recent books include The Domestication of Critical Theory, The Specter of Babel: A Reconstruction of Political Judgment, and Twilight of the Self: The Decline of the Individual in Late Capitalism.

Contents:

Nihilism and the descent of dialectics. On dialectical reason and its descent ; Reification as an ontological concept ; Value irrationality and the failures of deliberative democracy ; On the concept of social pathology

Dialectics, ontology and phronetic criticism. Negation without ontology : rethinking Adorno's late philosophy ; Ontologizing the dialectic : Lukás on the foundations for a Marxian ethics ; Toward an ontology of social relations ; Critical social ontology and the practice of phronetic criticism.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

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Other Format:

Print version: Thompson, Michael J., 1973- Descent of the dialectic

ISBN:

9781003179764

1003179762

9781040099780

1040099785

9781040099773

1040099777

Publisher Number:

99996818929

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