Brian Milstein

Commercium

Critical Theory From a Cosmopolitan Point of View

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book offers a unique analysis of the contradictions and pathologies of the modern international order and develops a new cosmopolitan alternative.

Produktdetails

• Reinventing Critical Theory
• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield International
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 468g
• ISBN-13: 9781783482849
• ISBN-10: 1783482842
• Artikelnr.: 42994317

Autorenporträt

Brian Milstein is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Goethe University Frankfurt. He completed his PhD at the New School for Social Research, where his dissertation was awarded the Hannah Arendt Award in Politics, and he has published articles in the European Journal of Philosophy and the European Journal of Political Theory.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface, Nancy Fraser
Introduction: Idea for a Critical Theory Conceived with a Cosmopolitan Intention
Part I: Habermas's Critical Theory of Society
1. The Theory of Communicative Action
2. The Postnational Constellation
Part II: Lifeworld and Commercium
3. Kant, Commercium and the Cosmopolitan Problematic
4. The 'Boundaries' of the Lifeworld
5. Commercium Beyond Kant
Part III: The Demospathic State and the International System
6. Systematic Approaches to International Relations
7. Between Functionalism and Path-Dependence
8. The Reifying Effects of Reciprocal Force
Part IV: The Tasks of a Critical Theory Conceived with a Cosmopolitan Intention
9. Critique and Crisis in World Society
Bibliography
Index