Background
McCarthy, Thomas Anthony was born on March 6, 1940 in Springfield, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Alfred Lawrence and Minnie Josephine (Vivian) McCarthy.
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Ideals and Illusions: On Reconstruction and Deconstruction in Contemporary Critical Theory Reprint edition by McCarthy, Thomas (1993) Paperback
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Ideals and Illusions: On Reconstruction and Deconstruction in Contemporary Critical Theory
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These lucid and closely reasoned studies of the thought of Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Jürgen Habermas, and Richard Rorty provide a coherent analysis of major pathways in recent critical theory. They defend a position analogous to Kant's - that ideas of reason are both unavoidable presuppositions of thought that have to be carefully reconstructed and persistent sources of illusions that have to be repeatedly deconstructed.McCarthy examines the critique of impure reason from the complementary viewpoints of the attackers and defenders of Enlightenment rationality. He first analyzes the work of Rorty, Foucault, and Derrida to determine what these radical critics have contributed to our understanding of reason and where they have gone wrong. He explores Habermas's theory of communicative rationality, focusing on the attempt to go beyond hermeneutics, the incorporation of systems theory, the implications of discourse ethics for our understanding of political debate and collective decision making, and the relation of political theology to critical social theory.Thomas McCarthy is Professor of Philosophy at Northwestern University and the editor of The MIT Press series Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought. The analysis and assessment of Habermas's recent work in Ideals and Illusions serves as a sequel to his earlier study The Critical Theory of Jürgen Habermas.
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The Critical Theory of Jurgen Habermas
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Ideals and Illusions: Reconstruction and Deconstruction in Critical Theory
(These lucid and closely reasoned studies of the thought o...)
These lucid and closely reasoned studies of the thought of Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Jürgen Habermas, and Richard Rorty provide a coherent analysis of major pathways in recent critical theory. They defend a position analogous to Kant's - that ideas of reason are both unavoidable presuppositions of thought that have to be carefully reconstructed and persistent sources of illusions that have to be repeatedly deconstructed. McCarthy examines the critique of impure reason from the complementary viewpoints of the attackers and defenders of Enlightenment rationality. He first analyzes the work of Rorty, Foucault, and Derrida to determine what these radical critics have contributed to our understanding of reason and where they have gone wrong. He explores Habermas's theory of communicative rationality, focusing on the attempt to go beyond hermeneutics, the incorporation of systems theory, the implications of discourse ethics for our understanding of political debate and collective decision making, and the relation of political theology to critical social theory. The analysis and assessment of Habermas's recent work in Ideals and Illusions serves as a sequel to McCarthy's earlier study The Critical Theory of Jürgen Habermas.
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La teoria critica de Jurgen Habermas / the Critical theory of Jurgen Habermas (Filosofia) (Spanish Edition)
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Más que ningún otro pensador contemporáneo, Jürgen Habermas ha logrado integrar la crÃtica de la racionalización en una reconstrucción del proyecto de la modernidad. En su obra encontramos el gran bosquejo de una vÃa intermedia entre las oposiciones que desgarran a la cultura y a las sociedades modernas. La obra de Habermas
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Thomas Anthony McCarthy
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Thomas Anthony McCarthy, American philosophy educator. Fellow Guggenheim Foundation, 1985, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany, 1975-1976, American Council Learned Societies, 1989-1990; grantee National Endowment of the Humanities, 1989-1990, Humboldt Research prize, 1993, National Endowment of the Humanities Fellow, 1994.
Education
Bachelor of Science in Mathematics, Holy Cross College, 1961. Master of Arts in Philosophy, University Notre Dame, 1963. Doctor of Philosophy in Philosophy, University Notre Dame, 1968.
Career
Instructor University Munich, Germany, 1968-1972. From assistant to associate professor Boston University, 1972-1985. Professor philosophy Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, since 1985, John Shaffer Distinguished professor in the Humanities, since 1992.
Director National Endowment of the Humanities summer seminar, Boston, 1982, 84.
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Ideals and Illusions: On Reconstruction and Deconstruction in Contemporary Critical Theory
( These lucid and closely reasoned studies of the thought...)
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Ideals and Illusions: Reconstruction and Deconstruction in Critical Theory
(These lucid and closely reasoned studies of the thought o...)
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La teoria critica de Jurgen Habermas / the Critical theory of Jurgen Habermas (Filosofia) (Spanish Edition)
(Más que ningún otro pensador contemporáneo, Jürgen Haberm...)
- Ideals and illusions; on reconstruction and deconstruction in contemporary critical theory.
- Ideals and Illusions: On Reconstruction and Deconstruction in Contemporary Critical Theory Reprint edition by McCarthy, Thomas (1993) Paperback
- The Critical Theory of Jurgen Habermas
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Ideals and Illusions: On Reconstruction and Deconstruction in Contemporary Critical Theory
Membership
Member American Philosophical Association, North America Kant Society, Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy.
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Married Patricia Perry, August 3, 1963. Children: Jennifer, Justin.
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American
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1961
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1963
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1968
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1968 - 1972
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1972 - 1985
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1985
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Fellow Guggenheim Foundation, 1985, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany, 1975-1976, American Council Learned Societies, 1989-1990. Grantee National Endowment of the Humanities, 1989-1990, Humboldt Research prize, 1993, National Endowment of the Humanities Fellow, 1994.Fellow Guggenheim Foundation, 1985, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany, 1975-1976, American Council Learned Societies, 1989-1990. Grantee National Endowment of the Humanities, 1989-1990, Humboldt Research prize, 1993, National Endowment of the Humanities Fellow, 1994.