Marcuse and Benhabib / political economy

[Bryan N. Alexander]

For a link between economics and theory, I think we might look to what
theorists are doing with chaos.  Chaos gets applied to economics all the
time (pretty usefully, too); and the notion of fractal reality seems
especially useful to the consensus-social-reality crowd, from Negri to
Deleuze (and I think Habermas, when I'm being generous).

On Sat, 12 Apr 1997, kenneth.mackendrick wrote:

> 
> I was wondering, does anyone know, or think, that Seyla Benhabib's critical theory 
> - especially her two essays "the generalized and the concrete other" and "in the 
> shadow of aristotle and hegel" is a reading of habermas through marcuse?  Instead 
> of Hegel - is the notion of an anticipatory utopia and a critical diagnostic more from 
> marcuse's _reason and revolution_ than a reformulated critique of 
> habermas's neo-kantianism?
> 
> Furthermore - I recently read an interview with Axel Honneth who maintained that a 
> third generation of critical theorists has yet to emerge - since such a generation 
> could only claim frankfurt school ties if they continued with the project of an 
> ideology-critique of political economy.  so despite the many essays and books 
> which argue that we need to go "back to adorno" (like robert hullot-kenter, deborah 
> cook, j.m. bernstein, jack zipes, jameson, etc.) is anyone actually working on 
> detailed connections between critical theory and economics?  most of my research 
> has centered around habermas's discourse ethics or his legal theory - does 
> anyone have any references for decent critiques of political economy - which 
> directly addresses issues of transnational capitalism, the money markets, 
> stockmarket speculation, the tax system, systemic violence, poverty etc? 
> 
> thanks,
> ken
> 
> 
> 



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