The Idolatry of the Actual: Habermas, Socialization, and the Possibility of Autonomy Contributor(s): Borman, David A. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1438437374 ISBN-13: 9781438437378 Publisher: State University of New York Press OUR PRICE: $90.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 2011 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Social - Social Science | Methodology |
Dewey: 300.1 |
LCCN: 2011003123 |
Series: Suny Series in the Philosophy of the Social Sciences (Hardcover) |
Physical Information: 1.05" H x 6.43" W x 8.92" (1.26 lbs) 318 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: The first close study of J rgen Habermas's theory of socialization, a central but infrequently discussed component of his defense of deliberative democracy, The Idolatry of the Actual charts its increasingly uneasy relationship with the later development of Habermas's social theory. In particular, David A. Borman argues that Habermas's account of the development of the subject and of the conditions under which autonomy can be realized is fundamentally at odds with the increasingly liberal tenor of his social theory. This leads Borman to return to the set of concerns that guided Habermas's social theory in the early 1970s, paying particular attention to questions of crisis and the means by which public reactions are shaped--questions perhaps more relevant today than they have been at any time since the 1930s. Using Habermas's early work as a framework, Borman constructs an original critical-theoretical argument that draws on research in the sociology of schooling to understand how attitudes toward work, reward, achievement, class, gender, and race are shaped in economically functional ways, and draws on philosophical and empirical scholarship to demonstrate the challenges of multicultural integration and the impact of both on the potential for progressive social transformation. |