The Idolatry of the Actual: Habermas, Socialization, and the Possibility of Autonomy

, by Borman, David A.

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ISBN: 9781438437361 | 1438437366
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Copyright: 7/2/2012

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Reinvigorates Jürgen Habermas' early critical theory.

Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
The Structure of Critical-Theoretical Argument	p. 2
The Argument	p. 7
The Critique of Late Habermas	p. 10
Capitalism and Contradiction in Legitimation Crisis	p. 17
On the Concept of Crisis	p. 18
System and Lifeworld	p. 20
Liberal Capitalism and Contradiction	p. 23
"A Descriptive Model of Advanced Capitalism"	p. 26
Crisis Tendencies in Advanced Capitalism	p. 31
The Critical Reception of Legitimation Crisis	p. 46
Rationalization and Social Pathology in the Theory of Communicative Action	p. 55
The Theory of Communicative Action in a Nutshell	p. 56
Linguistification as Rationalization: An Evolutionary Account of the Lifeworld	p. 60
Mediatization as Rationalization: An Evolutionary Account of System	p. 65
System and Lifeworld Interchange Roles and the Thesis of Colonization	p. 74
Summary	p. 89
Protest Potential in The Theory of Communicative Action	p. 91
Culture and Economy: On the Instrumentalization of Status Distinctions	p. 97
The "Inevitability" of System	p. 101
Postscript: Between Facts And Norms, In Which Law Saves Us From Ourselves	p. 103
Intermediate Reflections: Habermas And The Sociology Of The School	p. 107
Habermas on the Function of the School	p. 108
Dominant Perspectives in the Sociology of the School	p. 114
Schooling in Capitalist America: The Correspondence Principle	p. 122
Correspondence and Legitimation	p. 128
Jean Anyon and the Differentiation of the "Hidden Curriculum"	p. 142
Paul Willis and "the Lads"	p. 146
The Educational Exchange and the Counter-School Insight	p. 149
"The Lads" Culture and the Role of Race and Gender	p. 151
Fatalism, Positivism, and Working Class Culture	p. 155
Conclusion	p. 157
Moral Consciousness and Postconventionality	p. 167
Interactive Competence and the System of Speaker and World Perspectives	p. 172
Postconventionality and Discourse	p. 178
Vindicating the Developmental-Logical Argument	p. 183
Problems in Kohlberg	p. 187
Socialization and Ego Autonomy	p. 189
The True Individual	p. 195
The Causes of Postconventionality	p. 199
Arrested Development and the Systems-Theoretical Individual	p. 212
Arrested Development and Moral Consciousness	p. 214
Concluding Reflections: Multicultural Identity as Postconventionality	p. 223
New York Multiculturalism and the "Contact" Hypothesis	p. 225
Multiculturalism as a Fact and Multicultural Integration as an Aim of Policy	p. 227
Multiculturalism as Political Integration	p. 230
Constitutional Patriotism as Multicultural Identity	p. 235
The Actualization of Democratic Rights as a Source of Postconventional Recognition	p. 242
Multicultural Education and Capitalist Colonization: A Social Contradiction	p. 249
The Practical Significance of the Contradiction	p. 252
Conclusion: The Status of the Argument	p. 256
Notes	p. 263
Bibliography	p. 303
Index	p. 311
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The Idolatry of the Actual: Habermas, Socialization, and the Possibility of Autonomy

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