'Like a Tangled mobile': Reason and reification in the Quasi-Dialectical Theory of Jürgen Habermas

Philosophy and Social Criticism

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 1-23

  Horowitz, Asher ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adorno; Communicative action; Dialectic; Habermas; Horkheimer; Performative contradiction; Reason; Reification

Indexed keywords

EID: 35948954570     PISSN: 01914537     EISSN: 1461734X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/019145379802400101     Document Type: Article

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