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Crisi e critica del capitalismo come forma di vita. Un dialogo tra Nancy Fraser e Rahel Jaeggi
No full textThe article aims to critically discuss tha main thesis of the book Capitalism. A Conversation in Critical Theory written by Nancy Fraser and Rahel Jaeggi. The author shows how, in contrast with the increasing current literature on crisis, Fraser and Jaeggi elaborate a critical theory of society able to read jointly the different crisis of our time. They come to this result trough an expandend conception of capitalism as an institutionalised social order, constituted by a set of structural divisions and institutional separations, that are necessarily crisis-prone. Recostructing this account, the author analyzes its own advantages and weakness
Ritorno a Francoforte. Le avventure della nuova teoria critica
No full textNegli ultimi decenni molti filosofi hanno lavorato a un “ritorno” alla Teoria Critica della Scuola di Francoforte, nell’intento di riattualizzare il programma che negli anni Trenta fu di Horkheimer, Adorno e Marcuse. In un poderoso sforzo di ricostruzione, Giorgio Fazio racconta l’evoluzione di temi e approcci nel corso delle tre generazioni che si sono succedute dopo l’esaurimento della prima Scuola di Francoforte, con particolare attenzione agli itinerari di ricerca di Jürgen Habermas, Axel Honneth, Nancy Fraser, Wolfgang Streeck, Rahel Jaeggi e Hartmut Rosa. Si scopre così una tradizione di pensiero molto fertile, capace di offrire strumenti indispensabili a un programma di teoria critica della società, in un tempo in cui non poche delle premesse teoriche e delle aspettative politiche presenti ai suoi esordi sono crollate: oggi più che mai urge elaborare una diagnosi delle patologie che affliggono le società contemporanee e promuovere efficaci e radicali percorsi di emancipazion
Patologie sociali. Itinerari nella teoria critica contemporanea
No full textÈ merito di Axel Honneth, l’esponente di spicco della cosiddetta terza generazione della Scuola di Francoforte, aver rilanciato nel dibattito filosofico e sociologico degli ultimi anni il concetto di “patologie sociali”, offrendo così un quadro di raccordo teorico a tutto un filone di ricerca, che tuttora alimenta alcune delle direzioni più vivaci e avvertite del pensiero critico contemporaneo. Di tutto questo dibattito si è tentato di rendere conto in questo nu-mero di «Consecutio Rerum», una rivista che fin dalla sua fondazione ha dimostrato uno spiccato interesse per la teoria critica francofortese e i suoi sviluppi contemporanei. Proprio per rendere conto della specificità esibita dai diversi contesti di discussione nazionali ora menzionati – ferma restan-do la realtà dello scambio e dell’intreccio di posizioni e linee di ricerca, che attraversano confini e scuole di appartenenza – si è pensato di suddividere questo numero in diverse micro-sezioni, che vogliono in qualche modo dare un’idea di questa articolazione della discussione
Dalla critica ricostruttivo-immanente della modernità alla genealogia del neoliberalismo. Axel Honneth e i problemi di una teoria critica della società oggi
Full text linkThe article reconstructs Axel Honneth’s attempt to reformulate the original model of immanent critique of the first generation of Frankfurt’s School. Moving from the lesson of Habermas, Honneth clarified the socio-theoretical, philosophical and political problems that underlied this model of social criticism, but he also defended it as a valid alternative to other models of social criticism, which are prevalent today. The attempt to reformulate an immanent critique of society leads in Freedom’s Right into the innovative methodology of normative reconstruction, on which is based the ambitious program to renovate Hegel’s Rechtsphilosophie. This model of critique fails, however, when it has to describe adequately the normative innovations introduced by the “neoliberal revolution”. To analyze this historical discontinuity Honneth is therefore forced to change methodology and to take a genealogical approach, like in his sociological writings dedicated to neoliberalism. Here Honneth focus on the contradictions and the paradoxes of capitalism, giving an other meaning to the immanent critique and testifying the nonautonomy of a reconstructive model of critique wich is based on the presumption of normative potentials within the capitalist economic system
Il polanyian turn nella teoria critica contemporanea. Axel Honneth, Wolfgang Streeck e Nancy Fraser a confronto con Karl Polanyi
No full textThis article aims to investigate the recent interest in Karl Polanyi among three prominent figures of the contemporary critical theory: Axel Honneth, Wolgang Streeck, Nancy Fraser. The critical comparison among their different actualizations of Polanyian approach makes possible to focus on their advantages and disadvantages. Only Fraser elaborates in systematic terms some deficit within Polanyi’s theory of the “double movementμ, in order to outline an expanded critical conception of contemporary capitalism and its specific dynamic of “triple movement"
Capitalism, socialism, and democracy
Full text linkCapitalism. A Conversation in Critical Theory, written in the form of a dialogue between Nancy Fraser and Rahel Jaeggi, two eminent scholars of
contemporary Critical Theory, is an extremely rich book, full of very inspiring thoughts, suggestions and points for reflection. It constitutes a sort of point of convergence for the different research paths that Fraser – as well Jaeggi – has been pursuing over recent years through an enormous quantity of articles, presentations, interviews. But it represents also a sort of compendium of the themes and issues that are currently at the centre of the debates within contemporary Critical Theory. In the following presentation and discussion of the main issues elaborated in the text, I will focus mainly on Fraser’s research project. I will leave aside a discussion of the different research paths of Rahel Jaeggi, who is not only a dialogue partner of Fraser but who also outlines, in some passages of the book, her own different theoretical approach
From Hegel to Foucault and back? On Axel Honneth's interpretation of neoliberalism
No full textIn this article, I would like to critically focus on the role that the question of neoliberalism put in Axel Honneth’s studies. As I will attempt to show, this aspect of Honneth's latest research is of particular interest, for several reasons. Firstly, the question of neoliberalism is at the center, in one way or another, of all the most recent works in which Honneth has developed a diagnosis of the time, combined with an empirically grounded social analysis. For another reason it worths to consider the way in which Honneth has in recent years interpreted what he himself called the “neoliberal revolution”. It seems in fact that when Honneth tries to conceptualize the very nature of the neoliberal transformations, he is forced to abandon some of the presumptions that underlie the systematic approach developed in his most important work - Freedom’s Right. Put blundly, I wonder if it is precisely Honneth’s discussion of the nature of neoliberal trasformations that forces us to question some fundamental socio-theoretical assumptions that underly the whole project developed in his book Freedom’s Right, and to redescover conceptual tools more in syntony with the first Frankfurt Critical Theory. What emerges from Honneth's studies on neoliberalism, is not only the difficult to analyze the capitalist market economy as a sphere of social liberty, as presupposed in Freedom’s Right. What emerge is also but also a much less consensual and teleological image of contemporary societies: an image in which norms and values are always intertwined with mechanisms of power; social integration is always also based on the exercise of domination, force and ideology; capitalist can also exists without a background of shared normative orientations
Situating Rahel Jaeggi in the contemporary Frankfurt critical theory
No full textThis article aims to show how the originality of Jaeggi's contributionto recent debates in critical theory clearly emerges if one comparesher approach with what in many ways represents its antecedent andconstant point of reference: namely, the critical theory of AxelHonneth. This comparison offers a privileged way of grasping theadvantages of Jaeggi's approach with respect to that of Honneth.At the same time, reversing perspective, it permits us to focus onsome open problems in Jaeggi's critical theory, which deserve tobe discussed with care. The negativistic, formal and proceduralcharacter of her critical theory, while on one hand shielding herapproach from the risks to which the most recent theory of Honneth is exposed – historical teleologism and ethicalsubstantialism – on the other hand exposes her approach to therisk of an excess of formalism and proceduralism, rendering itunable to tackle the central problem for any critical theory:namely, the link with a critical praxis and with the struggles forthe emancipation of one’s own time
Critical Theory Today: An Old Paradigm for New Challenges?
No full textThis issue of Azimuth aims at exploring the possibilities that recent theoretical and methodological reflections can offer for the diagnosis of present social pathologies. In particular, the Editors have collected papers which are representative of the way in which Critical Theory is trying nowadays to re-establish a link between social philosophy and empirical research on the background of an interdisciplinary approach which includes psychoanalysis, sociology, epistemology, and the natural sciences. Taken together, these different lines of research show the fertility and vitality of a tradition, as well as they point out some contradictions and some worrying signs of regression in our societies
L’interesse per l’emancipazione. Le traiettorie della teoria critica della Scuola di Francoforte
Full text linkIn the article is proposed a reconstruction of some passages of particular theoretical relevance in the history of the Frankfurt School regarding the concept of emancipation. The thesis that is to be verified is that, in spite of the wide range of variations on the theme, it is possible to isolate some specific features of the "Frankfurt" perspective on emancipation, which can be recognized in all the interpretations that have been made of it. In the new generations of Frankfurt critical theorists, however, there has emerged the need to rethink this motif outside the frameworks of idealistic and Marxist philosophy of history in which it was initially interpreted. The challenge is to rethink emancipation as a goal of determined and specific praxis, anchored in nonlinear, interdependent but distinct and even conflicting paths of social progress.Nell’articolo si propone un percorso finalizzato a ricostuire alcuni passaggi di particolare rilevanza teorica nella vicenda della Scuola di Francoforte, in merito al concetto di emancipazione. La tesi che si vuole verificare è che, a dispetto dell’ampio ventaglio di variazioni sul tema, sia possibile isolare alcuni tratti specifici della prospettiva “francofortese” sull’emancipazione, che si lasciano riconoscere in tutte le interpretazioni che ne sono state compiute. Nelle nuove generazioni della teoria critica si è affermata tuttavia l’esigenza di ripensare questo motivo fuori dagli schemi di filosofia della storia di matrice idealistica e marxista, nei quali veniva inizialmente interpretato. La sfida è quella di ripensare l’emancipazione come un obiettivo di prassi determinate e specifiche, ancorate a percorsi di progresso sociale non lineari, interdipendenti ma distinti e persino in contrasto
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