The Emergence of Dialectical Theory: Philosophy and Political Inquiry
Scott Warren
Scott Warren’s ambitious and enduring work sets out to resolve the ongoing identity crisis of contemporary political inquiry. In the Emergence of Dialectical Theory, Warren begins with a careful analysis of the philosophical foundations of dialectical theory in the thought of Kant, Hegel, and Marx. He then examines how the dialectic functions in the major twentieth-century philosophical movements of existentialism, phenomenology, neomarxism, and critical theory. Numerous major and minor philosophers are discussed, but the emphasis falls on two of the greatest dialectical thinkers of the previous century: Maurice Merleau-Ponty and J?rgen Habermas.Warren’s shrewd critique is indispensable to those interested in the history of social and political thought and the philosophical foundations of political theory. His work offers an alternative for those who find postmodernism to be at a philosophical impasse. “[This book] is stimulating and thought provoking . . . [Warren] has the instinct to raise the right questions.”—Zolt?n Tar, Contemporary Sociology
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Year:
2008
Publisher:
University Of Chicago Press
Language:
english
Pages:
273
ISBN 10:
0226873919
ISBN 13:
9780226873916
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PDF, 10.95 MB
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english, 2008