Roderick Condon

Reconsidering Habermas's Colonization Thesis

A Critical Theory of Neoliberalism

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Produktbeschreibung

This book reconsiders Habermas's critique of capitalism as a foundation for a critical theory of neoliberalism. Taking criticisms into account, the author refines and redevelops Habermas's system-lifeworld paradigm in three parts, focusing on system, lifeworld, and communication.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. März 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 529g
• ISBN-13: 9780367470951
• ISBN-10: 0367470950
• Artikelnr.: 72177963

Autorenporträt

Roderick Condon is a teaching fellow in the Department of Sociology, School of Social Sciences and Philosophy at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I: System
1. Habermas and Honneth: Theorizing the Economy
2. Reconsidering Habermas's Media Theory: Linguistic and Delinguistified
Communication
3. System-Lifeworld Refined and Redeveloped: A Critical Theory of the
Capitalist Economy
Part II: Lifeworld
4. The Colonization Thesis Expanded: Capitalism and Democracy as
Evolutionary Processes
5. Modern Culture and Political Ideologies
Part III: Communication
6. From Colonization to Relinguistification: Reconsidering Habermas's
Colonization Thesis
7. Colonization as Relinguistification: A Critical Theory of Neoliberalism