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Under WeberÆS Shadow: Modernity, Subjectivity and Politics in Habermas, Arendt and MacIntyre

by Keith Breen
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9781472456267
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: Politics and Current Affairs
  • Publisher: T&F
  • Publisher Imprint: Routledge
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 264
  • Original Price: GBP 45.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 377 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): History & Theory, Essays, and Political

Under Weber's Shadow presents an extended critical evaluation of the social and political thought of JÃ1/4rgen Habermas, Hannah Arendt and Alasdair MacIntyre. Although hailing from very different philosophical traditions, these theorists all take as their starting-point Max Weber's seminal diagnosis of late modernity, the view that the world-historic processes of rationalization and disenchantment are paradoxical in promising freedom yet threatening servitude under the 'iron cage' of instrumental reason. However, each rejects his pessimistic understanding of the grounds and possibilities of political life, accusing him of complicity in the very realities he sought to resist. Seeking to move beyond Weber's monological view of the self, his subjectivism and his identification of the political with domination, they offer alternative, intersubjective conceptions of the subject, ethics and politics that allow for positive future possibilities. But this incontrovertible gain, it is argued, comes at the cost of depoliticizing key arenas of human endeavour and of neglecting the reality of struggle and contestation. Engaging with important current debates and literature, Keith Breen provides a rigorous analysis of the work of Habermas, Arendt, MacIntyre and Weber and a highly accessible and original intervention within contemporary social and political thought. Under Weber's Shadow will therefore be of interest to students and researchers alike within the areas of social and political theory, as well as those within the disciplines of ethics, sociology and philosophy.

Keith Breen is a Lecturer in political Theory at the School of Politics, International Studies and Philosophy, Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland

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