Marcuse and Benhabib / political economy

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At 02:06 PM 97/04/12 -0400, you wrote:
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>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?
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>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 
 For  issues of transnational capitalism, the money markets, REad Ben
Bagdikian, and Robert McChesney. Both are coomunication scholars.
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stockmarket speculation, the tax system, systemic violence, poverty etc? 
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>thanks,
>ken
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