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11Emancipation and Illusion: Rationality and Gender in Habermas's Theory of ModernityPennsylvania State University Press. 1997.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 inclu…Read more
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7Habermas on Social Labor and Communicative ActionThe Paideia Archive: Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy 42 71-76. 1998.In contemporary philosophy and social theory, Harbermas's theory of communicative action stands indisputably for a modernity enlightened about itself and its potential. Yet, however much he professes his commitment to universalist ideals of inclusiveness and equality, his influential theory is also marked by disquieting statements on matters of gender. I argue that the problem of gender in Habermas's theory can be traced to his attempt to rework the Marxian tradition of historical materialism. I…Read more
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10First published in 1979. Elisée Reclus was an important anarchist theorist whose contribution to the radical direction which the European anarchist movement assumed in the late nineteenth century, has been largely neglected by scholars. This study of his thought provides a basis for a general re-assessment of European anarchism, by contributing to an understanding of important dimensions of theory and practice, which previously have not been well understood. Amongst the aspects examined are the …Read more
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11Working in the Philosophical Discourse of Modernity: Habermas, Faoucault, and DerridaPhilosophy Today 40 (1): 169-178. 1996.
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19Working in the Philosophical Discourse of Modernity: Habermas, Faoucault, and DerridaPhilosophy Today 40 (1): 169-178. 1996.
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Florida State UniversityProfessor
Tallahassee, Florida, United States of America
Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Mind |
19th Century Philosophy |