Penn State Series in Critical Theory. From Alienation to Forms of Life : : The Critical Theory of Rahel Jaeggi / / ed. by Eduardo Mendieta, Amy Allen.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn State University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
• MitwirkendeR: Allen, Amy,; Celikates, Robin,; Christman, John,; Jaeggi, Rahel,; Loick, Daniel,; Mendieta, Eduardo,; Neuhouser, Frederick,; Pensky, Max,; Redecker, Eva von,; Zambrana, Rocío,
• HerausgeberIn: Allen, Amy,; Mendieta, Eduardo,
• Place / Publishing House: University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Penn State Series in Critical Theory ; 1
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 p.)

The wide-ranging work of Rahel Jaeggi, a leading voice of the new generation of critical theorists, demonstrates how core concepts and methodological approaches in the tradition of the Frankfurt School can be updated, stripped of their dubious metaphysical baggage, and made fruitful for critical the...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Chapter 1 Introduction
• Chapter 2 “Resistance to the Perpetual Danger of Relapse” Moral Progress and Social Change
• Chapter 3 Decentered Social Selves Interrogating Alienation in Conversation with Rahel Jaeggi
• Chapter 4 The Normativity of Forms of Life
• Chapter 5 In Search of the Negative in Rahel Jaeggi’s Kritik von Lebensformen
• Chapter 6 What’s Critical about Critical Theory?— Redux
• Chapter 7 On the Politics of Forms of Life
• Chapter 8 Forms of Life, Progress, and Social Struggle On Rahel Jaeggi’s Critical Theory
• Chapter 9 Progress, Normativity, and the Dynamics of Social Change An Exchange between Rahel Jaeggi and Amy Allen
• Chapter 10 Reply to My Critics
• Contributors
• Index