Work and Emancipation in the Age of Precarious: Engaging Habermas and His Critics

نویسنده

  • Michael R. Welton
چکیده

The domain and status of work or purposive-rational action in the writings of Jurgen Habermas is highly controversial. Some of his critics accuse him of abandoning the emancipatory potential of non-alienated labor, a central axiom of classic Marxism. This article analyzes his critics’ arguments before taking up the influential commentary of Axel Honneth. His arguments are of significance for adult educators: he reinstates, modestly, the emancipatory potential of the organization of production by discovering a philosophical and moral grounding of this provocative proposal. Work and Emancipation in the Age of Precarious: Engaging Habermas and His Critics

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • IJAVET

دوره 5  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2014