Category: Frankfurt School
Teaching and learning online – some pedagogical reflections
This text is a scripted version of the video I created on my take of teaching and learning online...
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What theories can accomplish – and what they can’t
This is the title of a chapter in a book called Jürgen Habermas: The past as future, most of which...
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Theory, Method and Axel Honneth
Recognition theory as social research: investigating the dynamics of social conflict is an edited...
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An Awareness of What is Missing
Discussion over reason and religion has been so overshadowed by the work of Richard Dawkins and...
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Can the web save democracy?
In the last decade or so, the web has often been associated with the idea of public participation;...
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Fromm, Marcuse and the rise of the Marxist public intellectual
Lawrence Friedman’s 2013 biography of Erich Fromm ‘The lives of Erich Fromm: Love’s prophet’ is a...
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The public sphere: Paradise lost, in more ways than one
Article: Laura Knoppers (2014) Gender and the Public Sphere in Habermas and Milton: New Critical...
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The role of the public sphere in the Jasmine Revolution: The struggle over women’s rights in Tunisia
Article: Mounira M. Charrad & Amina Zarrugh (2014) Equal or complementary? Women in the new...
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‘The more justice, the less freedom’: Max Horkheimer on Critical Theory
Wise words from Max Horkheimer, the original Director of the Institute for Social Reasearch, or...
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The dialectic of whisky drinking: Critical theory and the search for Scottish authenticity
Article: Karl Spracklen (2011) Dreaming of drams: authenticity in Scottish whisky tourism as an...
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Kramer v. Honneth: Juridification and the invisible hand of the law
In his newest book, Freedom’s right: the social foundations of democratic life, Axel Honneth...
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In the Eye of the Beholder: Honneth, Bourdieu and Recognition
The most serious criticism faced by Axel Honneth and his attempt to develop a critical theory of...
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