Morality and Critical Theory: On the Normative Problem of Frankfurt School Social Criticism
James Gordon Finlayson
I. The Problem of Normative Foundations: Habermas's Original Criticism of Adorno and Horkheimer: In The Theory of Communicative Action, Jürgen Habermas writes:
From the beginning, critical theory labored over the difficulty of giving an account of its own normative foundations ...1
Call this Habermas's original objection to the problem of normative foundations. It has been hugely influential both in the interpretation and assessment of Frankfurt School critical theory and in the development of later variants of it. Nowadays it is a truth almost universally acknowledged that any critical social theory in possession of normative...
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What about the financial problem of social criticism experienced by those who find that they must pay five dollars to read Gordon's excellent article for no more than a day?
In the true spirit of the Frankfurt School, with all its justified antagonism to commodification, has Gordon not put a copy of this article somewhere where his sympathetic fellow travellers can read it without reaching for their credit cards?
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