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Emancipation and Illusion: Rationality and Gender in Habermas's Theory of Modernity

Emancipation and Illusion: Rationality and Gender in Habermas's Theory of Modernity

Fleming, Marie

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General Gender StudiesWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 027102562X
ISBN13: 9780271025629
Publisher: Penn St Univ Pr
Published: Apr 15 1997
Pages: 252
Weight: 0.82
Height: 0.57 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

In this comprehensive analysis of Jürgen Habermas's philosophy and social theory, Marie Fleming takes strong issue with Habermas over his understanding of rationality and the lifeworld, emancipation, history, and gender. Throughout the book she focuses attention on the various ways in which an idea of emancipation motivates and shapes his universalist theory and how it persists over several major changes in methodology. Her critique of Habermas begins from the view that universalism has to include a vision of gender equality, and she asks why Habermas, despite deeply held concerns about equality and inclusiveness, repeatedly and systematically relegates matters of gender to secondary status in his social and moral theory. She extends her critique to a range of issues in his theory of rationality and examines what she views as his very problematical claims about truthfulness, art, and bourgeois intimacy.

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