We, heirs of enlightenment: Critical theory, democracy and social science

International Journal of Philosophical Studies

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 353-377

  Bohman, James ^a  

^a SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Critical Theory; Democracy; Development; Enlightenment; Social science

Indexed keywords

EID: 61249352772     PISSN: 09672559     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09672550500169166     Document Type: Review

References (37)

1. Martin Mollis, Models of Man (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1977), p. 180.
2. Foucault, 'What is Enlightenment?' in The Foucault Reader (New York: Pantheon Books, 1984), p. 42.
3. Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno, The Dialectic of Enlightenment (New York: Seabury, 1982), p. xiii.
4. Habermas, Philosophical Discourse of Modernity (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1987), p. 113.
5. Condorcet, quoted in Hollis, Trust within Reason (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002), p. 9.
6. See Stephen Toulmin, Cosmopolis: The Hidden Agenda of Modernity (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990), p. 209.
7. For a related criticism, see Danilo Zolo, Cosmopolis: Prospects for World Government (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1997).
8. Foucault, 'What is Enlightenment?', p. 48. Foueualt asks the question in this way because he clearly thinks that this disconnection is possible; he also says that rejecting the Enlightenment ethos is not an option.
9. Marx, Selected Writings (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1978), pp. 104,154;
10. on human activity as world- and self-transformative, see 1844 Manuscripts in Selected Writings, p. 80. Marx did not appreciate the role of communicative powers, a lacuna in Critical Theory filled by Habermas. Habermas did not, however, see these powers as creative.
11. John Dupré, Human Nature and the Limits of Science (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2001), p. 181.
12. Mollis, Models of Man, p. 181.
13. For an historical account of the development of different generations of rights from individual liberties to political rights to social rights, see T. II. Marshall, Citizenship and Social Class (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1950).
14. See Amartya Sen, Poverty and Famine (Oxford: Oxford University Press 1986).
15. John Dewey, The Public and its Problems, in The Later Works, 1925-1927, Vol. 2 (Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1988), p. 325.
16. John Dewey, The Later Works, 1925-1927, Ibid.
17. John Rawls, Law of Peoples (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001), p. 32;
18. and 'The Idea of Public Reason Revisited', also in this volume, p. 172.
19. On non-ideal theory and the issue of non-compliance, see Law of Peoples, p. 5.
20. Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism (New York: Harcourt Brace, 1958), p. 479.
21. See Isaiah Berlin, 'Two Concepts of Liberty', in Four Essays on Liberty (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1969), p. 129.
22. See Philip Pettit, Republicanism: A Theory of Freedom and Government (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997), p. 88.
23. See Allan Buchanan, Justice, Legitimacy and Self-Determination (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004), p. 146.
24. Charles Sabel, 'Constitutional Orders: Trust Building and Response to Change', in Contemporary Capitalism, ed. J. R. Hollingsworth and R. Boyer (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997), p. 159.
25. James Tully, 'Unfreedom of the Moderns', Modern Law Review, 32 (2002), p. 217.
26. Gerald Frug, City Making: Building Communities Without Building Walls (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999), Ch. 6.
27. Amartya Sen, Development as Freedom (New York: Knopf, 1999), Ch. 5.
28. Amartya Sen, Development as Freedom, Ibid., p. 184.
29. Sen, Development as Freedom, 154.
30. Charles Tilly, Coercion, Capital and European States (London: Blackwell, 1990).
31. Andrew Linklater, 'The Changing Contours of Critical International Relations Theory', in Critical Theory and World Politics, ed. R. W. Jones (London: Lynne Reinner,2001),p. 38.
32. John Rawls, 'The Idea of an Overlapping Consensus', in Collected Papers (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999), p. 424.
33. William Wimstatt, 'Complexity and Organization', Proceedings of the Philosophy of Science Association, ed. R. S. Cohen (Dordrecht: Reidel, 1974), pp. 67-86.
34. Habermas, Between Facts and Norms (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1996), p. 305.
35. John Dewey, Logic: The Theory of Inquiry, The Later Works 1938, Vol. 12 (Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1986), p. 499.
36. John Dewey, The Public and its Problems, p. 255.
37. Habermas, Between Facts and Norms, pp. 146-147.