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- The Norms of Answerability: Social Theory Between Bakhtin and Habermas
- Book
- 2002
- Published by: State University of New York Press
summary
Greg M. Nielsen brings Mikhail Bakhtin’s ethics and aesthetics into a dialogue with social theory that responds to the sense of ambivalence and uncertainty at the core of modern societies. Nielsen situates a social theory between Bakhtin’s norms of answerability and Jürgen Habermas’s sociology, ethics, and discourse theory of democracy in a way that emphasizes the creative dimension in social action without reducing explanation to the emotional and volitional impulse of the individual or collective actor. Some of the classical sources that support this mediated position are traced to Alexander Vvedenskij’s and Georg Simmel’s critiques of Kant’s ethics, Hermann Cohen’s philosophy of fellowship, and Max Weber’s and George Herbert Mead’s theories of action. In the shift from Bakhtin’s theory of interpersonal relations to a dialogic theory of societal events that defends the bold claim that law and politics should not be completely separated from the specificity of ethical and cultural communities, a study of citizenship and national identity is developed.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright Page
- pp. iii-iv
- AKNOWLEDGMENTS
- pp. xix-xxi
- 2. COMMUNICATIVE ACTION OR DIALOGUE?
- pp. 49-65
- 3. THE WORLD OF OTHER’S WORDS
- pp. 67-87
- 5. ACTION AND EROS
- pp. 109-123
- 6. REFLEXIVE SUBJECTIVITY
- pp. 125-141
- 7. CITIZENSHIP AND NATIONAL IDENTITY
- pp. 143-165
- 9. CONCLUSION: On Culture and the Political
- pp. 201-207
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- pp. 225-239
Additional Information
ISBN
9780791489321
DOI
MARC Record
OCLC
52674738
Pages
272
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No