Adorno, Habermas, Honneth:

Music Criticism and Adorno

Résumé When thinking of Adorno and music criticism, two strategies suggest themselves. The one is to look at the kind of criticism, cultural criticism in general and music criticism in particular, propagated by Adorno. It is, after all, difficult to overestimate the degree of his influence on musical thought in the twentieth century (whether one agrees with his views or not) and of the intellec...

Readings of Adorno with Tarkovsky and Haneke

The Habermas-gadamer Debate

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Marcuse & Habermas on New Science

Marx's meaning of materialism as well as the extent of Hegel's influence on his thought has been in the center of controversy among Marxists ever since the publication in 1923 of Lukdcs' History and Class Consciousness and Korsch's Marxism and Philosophy with the Frankfurt school, including Marcuse, embracing the Hegelian interpretation. The controversy has resurfaced within the Frankfurt schoo...

The Autopoietic Turn in Habermas’ Legal Philosophy

Since the publication of Between Facts and Norms, it appears to have gone largely unremarked by crit‐ ical theorists that Habermas has wholly abandoned the neo‐Parsonian systems‐theoretic account of so‐ cial systems developed in his middle period. In this paper, I argue not only that Habermas has developed a new vocabulary and theoretical structure for dealing with social systems ...