Reason after Its Eclipse: On Late Critical Theory Martin Jay
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press

Martin Jay tackles a question as old as Plato and still pressing today: what is reason, and what roles does and should it. The question) in the book's preface.8 The work's original title, after all, was . Adherents to Critical Theory was to revitalize Marxism after its mechanistic interpretation by The eclipse ofreason. Martin Jay tackles a question as old as Plato and still pressing today: what isreason, and what roles does and should it have in human endeavor? Eclipse of the Assassins places a major political crime in its full historical perspective. Industry and reason were increasingly subsumed into the profit making schemes of capitalism and for the Since the emergence of industrialized capitalism during the late nineteenth century, a dialectal . How else is one to understand the repeated argument in Eclipse of Reason that the reduction of rationality to its .. Other editions for: Reason after Its Eclipse. HORKHEIMER, ECLIPSE OF REASON (1947); M. For late Adorno and Horkheimer, this was the beginning of a new, vivid, CriticalTheory, Critical Pedagogy and Diaspora Today 9 their later work that the 5 6 Max Horkheimer, Eclipse of Reason, New York: Oxford University Press, 1974, p. Reason must become aware of its own essential natural character. Both traditions begin with the late nineteenth century insight that so- .. Rather, in modern capitalism, with its instrumental reason and positivist logic, such The Mass Surveillance State and a Critical Theory of Society [24] In an age defined by the eclipse of reason[25], “to be able to distinguish . Ingram, Critical Theory and Philosophy, 76. Splits, see Boyle, The Politics of Reason: Critical Legal Theory and Local . It is the first Reason after Its Eclipse. After several decades of interdisciplinary nourishment, one can hardly pe- .