Reconsidering Habermas’s Colonization Thesis

A Critical Theory of Neoliberalism

Roderick Condon (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

228 Seiten

2025
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-47095-1 (ISBN)

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This book reconsiders Habermas’s critique of capitalism as a foundation for a critical theory of neoliberalism. Taking criticisms into account, the author refines and redevelops Habermas’s system-lifeworld paradigm in three parts, focusing on system, lifeworld, and communication. The exposition unfolds through a new synthesis and convergence, from within Habermas’s frame, of Axel Honneth, Niklas Luhmann, Talcott Parsons, and Karl Marx. This synthesis is interwoven with an account of the neoliberal turn, such that social theory is historically contextualized and neoliberalism theoretically explained at one and the same time. The end result is a reconstruction of the colonization thesis in a new theory of relinguistification, advancing a communicative, dialectical, and reflexive theory of reification.

Reconsidering Habermas’s Colonization Thesis will appeal to scholars of critical theory, social theory, sociology, and cultural studies, as well as readers interested in neoliberalism and the critique of capitalism.

Roderick Condon is a teaching fellow in the Department of Sociology, School of Social Sciences and Philosophy at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.

Introduction

Part I: System

1. Habermas and Honneth: Theorizing the Economy

2. Reconsidering Habermas's Media Theory: Linguistic and Delinguistified Communication

3. System-Lifeworld Refined and Redeveloped: A Critical Theory of the Capitalist Economy

Part II: Lifeworld

4. The Colonization Thesis Expanded: Capitalism and Democracy as Evolutionary Processes

5. Modern Culture and Political Ideologies

Part III: Communication

6. From Colonization to Relinguistification: Reconsidering Habermas's Colonization Thesis

7. Colonization as Relinguistification: A Critical Theory of Neoliberalism

Erscheinungsdatum	06.03.2025
Reihe/Serie	Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
Zusatzinfo	8 Tables, black and white; 16 Line drawings, black and white; 16 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	600 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
ISBN-10	0-367-47095-0 / 0367470950
ISBN-13	978-0-367-47095-1 / 9780367470951
Zustand	Neuware