Marcuse and Benhabib / political economy

[Robert Johnson]

On Sat, 12 Apr 1997, Bryan N. Alexander wrote:

> 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
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
> 
> Bryan Alexander					Department of English
> email: bnalexan@umich.edu			University of Michigan
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	critical theorist has emerged....

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