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If Foucault, why not Rawls? On enlarging the critical tent 如果是福柯，为什么不是罗尔斯？关于扩大批判的帐篷

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Constellations-An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory Pub Date : 2023-12-19 DOI: 10.1111/1467-8675.12723

Alessandro Ferrara

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Critical theory's generational predicament 批判理论的代际困境

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Constellations-An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory Pub Date : 2023-12-14 DOI: 10.1111/1467-8675.12730

Samuel Moyn

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We're not special: Congratulations! 我们并不特别：恭喜你们

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Constellations-An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory Pub Date : 2023-12-14 DOI: 10.1111/1467-8675.12733

Christopher F. Zurn

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Rethinking Critique and Theory 重新思考批评与理论

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Constellations-An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory Pub Date : 2023-12-14 DOI: 10.1111/1467-8675.12731

Martin Saar

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The animating impulses of critical theory 批判理论的动力

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Constellations-An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory Pub Date : 2023-12-14 DOI: 10.1111/1467-8675.12725

Peter E. Gordon

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Interdisciplinary materialism and the task of critical institutionalism 跨学科唯物主义与批判制度主义的任务

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Constellations-An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory Pub Date : 2023-12-14 DOI: 10.1111/1467-8675.12721

Hubertus Buchstein

{"title":"Interdisciplinary materialism and the task of critical institutionalism","authors":"Hubertus Buchstein","doi":"10.1111/1467-8675.12721","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1467-8675.12721","url":null,"abstract":"My first encounter with Horkheimer's seminal 1931 speech “The Present Situation of Social Philosophy and the Tasks of an Institute for Social Research” dates back to 1981 when I was struggling as a young student to read the final chapters of Jürgen Habermas's just published Theory of Communicative Action. Habermas made a strong case for Horkheimer's program of interdisciplinary materialism in his book. He reconstructed Horkheimer's original program and presented an ambitious update (see Habermas, 1987, pp. 374–403). This encouraged me to read Horkheimer's famous speech of January 1931 and became the inspirational starting point for my ongoing interest in the history of the Frankfurt School.The primary reason for the appeal of the classical Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School until today is that while it remains within a Marxist framework, it contrasted the economism of Marxist orthodoxy. It restored an autonomous logic to the domains that orthodox Marxism qualified as “superstructure.” This perspective yields inspiring findings in cultural theory and social psychology to this day. Yet in the early period of the Frankfurt School, the inner circle around Horkheimer did not achieve comparable results; at no point did this circle elaborate a theory of the political or of political institutions. This shortcoming dates back to the very beginnings of the Frankfurt School, to Horkheimer's programmatic inaugural speech as the new director of Institut für Sozialforschung (IfS) of 1931 in particular.When Horkheimer enumerated the subdisciplines of interdisciplinary materialism in his speech, the absence of political science was striking. He defined social philosophy as the philosophical interpretation of human beings as members of a community; social philosophy must therefore primarily concern itself with the social existence of human beings. Horkheimer named “the state” and the “law” (Horkheimer, 1931, p. 25) first in the list of social phenomena, even above economy and religion. He dug deeper in his discussion of social philosophy with an examination of Hegel's theory of objective spirit by criticizing Hegel's idea that the state could serve as a solution to integrate the conflicts of capitalist society (see Horkheimer, 1931, pp. 26–28). He included “the state” and “political association” (Horkheimer, 1931, p. 31) as part of the investigation of the ways in which people live together.In his following deliberations about the “ongoing dialectical permeation and evolution of philosophical theory and empirical-scientific praxis” (Horkheimer, 1931, p. 29), however, Horkheimer quickly lost sight of political associations and the state. In his list of the scientific disciplines that are supposed to participate in socio-philosophical research, Staatswissenschaft and Wissenschaft von der Politik—as the discipline newly ","PeriodicalId":51578,"journal":{"name":"Constellations-An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory","volume":"30 4","pages":"414-418"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2023-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1467-8675.12721","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139180263","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Horkheimer's unrealized vision 霍克海默未实现的愿景

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Constellations-An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory Pub Date : 2023-12-14 DOI: 10.1111/1467-8675.12732

William E. Scheuerman

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Totality, morality, and social philosophy 整体、道德和社会哲学

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Constellations-An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory Pub Date : 2023-12-14 DOI: 10.1111/1467-8675.12729

Frank I. Michelman

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The Institute for Social Research on its 100th birthday. A former director's perspective 社会研究所百岁诞辰。前所长的观点

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Constellations-An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory Pub Date : 2023-12-14 DOI: 10.1111/1467-8675.12726

Axel Honneth

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The return of the critique of ideologies 意识形态批判的回归

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Constellations-An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory Pub Date : 2023-12-14 DOI: 10.1111/1467-8675.12728

Cristina Lafont

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