The Nature of Political Theory

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9 Dialogic Foundations The upshot of Chapter Eight is that political theory, in its postmodern mode, takes the conventionalist f ...

272 The Nature of Political Theory is not the same as the older forms. It is definitely a new form that accommodates itself to m ...

Dialogic Foundations 273 that language particularly (as has already been noted throughout this book) has been the more general g ...

274 The Nature of Political Theory subjective notions of ‘interiority’. Further, all denied the idea that language simply pictur ...

Dialogic Foundations 275 (as I will argue) that both do, at the same time, configure their arguments under the rubric of a quali ...

276 The Nature of Political Theory free itself from more classical historical materialism and revolutionary communism. In fact, ...

Dialogic Foundations 277 which it now is liquidating’ (Horkheimer 1996: 360). Humans had become shallower and more uni-dimension ...

278 The Nature of Political Theory paradigm of subjectivity—a paradigm that gave rise to the whole problem of negative self-dest ...

Dialogic Foundations 279 not Marxist in any orthodox sense, his project for a more rational legitimated society was informed ini ...

280 The Nature of Political Theory Enlightenment stance, his conception of both philosophy and political theory is something whi ...

Dialogic Foundations 281 feeds on many of the traditional understandings of theory, reason, and knowledge, implicit in older cla ...

282 The Nature of Political Theory interests (see Habermas 1971: 308). The sciences are thus premised on human cognitive interes ...

Dialogic Foundations 283 on itself. Thus, what Hegel calls dialectical ‘is the reconstruction of...recurrent experience and its ...

284 The Nature of Political Theory ‘forms’ of reason and therefore differing modes of communication. Philosophy, in this context ...

Dialogic Foundations 285 Universal Pragmatics and Fallibilism The question arises as to what this more fallibilistic rationality ...

286 The Nature of Political Theory and political implications. Each sphere of knowledge presupposes concepts which are vital to ...

Dialogic Foundations 287 motivating force of sanctions...is taken by the rationally motivating force of accept- ing a speaker’s ...

288 The Nature of Political Theory empirical sciences may, in future, provide indirect confirmation of the reconstructive philos ...

Dialogic Foundations 289 implicitly present here. Valid norms are collectively achieved and embody a common good. For Habermas, ...