{"product_id":"reason-after-its-eclipse-martin-jay-9780299306540","title":"Reason After Its Eclipse: On Late Critical Theory","description":"Martin Jay tackles a question as old as Plato and still pressing today: what is reason, and what roles does and should it have in human endeavor? Applying the tools of intellectual history, he examines the overlapping, but not fully compatible, meanings that have accrued to the term \"reason\" over two millennia, homing in on moments of crisis, critique, and defense of reason. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAfter surveying Western ideas of reason from the ancient Greeks through Kant, Hegel, and Marx, Jay engages at length with the ways leading theorists of the Frankfurt School--Horkheimer, Marcuse, Adorno, and most extensively Habermas--sought to salvage a viable concept of reason after its apparent eclipse. They despaired, in particular, over the decay in the modern world of reason into mere instrumental rationality. When reason becomes a technical tool of calculation separated from the values and norms central to daily life, then choices become grounded not in careful thought but in emotion and will--a mode of thinking embraced by fascist movements in the twentieth century. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIs there a more robust idea of reason that can be defended as at once a philosophical concept, a ground of critique, and a norm for human emancipation? Jay explores at length the ommunicative rationality advocated by Habermas and considers the range of arguments, both pro and con, that have greeted his work.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Martin Jay\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0299306542\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780299306540\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Wisconsin Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/26\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.60d","brand":"Martin Jay","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43994825261311,"sku":"9780299306540","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_5de05e7c-670d-46bb-9aad-74c8834e9823.jpg?v=1683332398","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/reason-after-its-eclipse-martin-jay-9780299306540","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}