Ebook: The Idolatry of the Actual: Habermas, Socialization, and the Possibility of Autonomy
Author: David A. Borman
- Tags: Religion & Spirituality, Agnosticism, Atheism, Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, Literature & Fiction, New Age & Spirituality, Occult & Paranormal, Other Eastern Religions & Sacred Texts, Other Religions Practices & Sacred Texts, Religious Art, Religious Studies, Worship & Devotion, Social Philosophy, Philosophy, Politics & Social Sciences, Methodology, Social Sciences, Politics & Social Sciences, Class, Sociology, Politics & Social Sciences, Philosophy & Social Aspects, Education Theory, Schools & Teaching, Education
- Series: SUNY Series in the Philosophy of the Social Sciences
- Year: 2011
- Publisher: State University of New York Press
- Language: English
- pdf
The first close study of Jürgen 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.
Download the book The Idolatry of the Actual: Habermas, Socialization, and the Possibility of Autonomy for free or read online
Continue reading on any device:
Last viewed books
Related books
{related-news}
Comments (0)