Critical Hermeneutics 2.0: A Necessary Update of the ‘New German Ideology’

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Critical Hermeneutics 2.0: A Necessary Update of the ‘New German Ideology’

Original language description

This article is an attempt to re-examine the potential relevance of critical theory for East-Central European countries (inter alia). The main task consists in the need to resolve the question of how we can get beyond the ‘eternal’ image of the nation state, which is not capable of responding adequately to the global challenges of the twenty-first century on the one hand and avoid falling into the trap of ‘globalism’ that is insensitive to particularities, and consequently provokes harsh and radical reactions on the other. Hence, the paper addresses the criticism of ‘abstract cosmopolitanism’ from a participant’s point of view and discusses a critique of Habermasian normative accounts from this embedded, applied and contextually concrete perspective. In the first part the focus lies on Ivan Krastev and Stephen Holmes’s critique of the ‘new German ideology’, which is, however, in various respects problematic (I.). Nevertheless, certain parts of Krastev and Holmes’s arguments are accepted in part 2 whereby the need to revise the radical critique of methodological nationalism is stressed (II.). In the third part it will be noted that this desirable methodological caution can already be found in the work of some contemporary critical theorists, particularly Axel Honneth. In the third and concluding part, using Axel Honneth’s theory of justice but also Gerard Delanty’s (III.) and Hans-Herbert Kögler’s work (IV.), I subsequently attempt to identify a sort of ‘third way’ in order to avoid the various extreme versions of nationalism on the one hand or cosmopolitanism/globalism on the other hand, proposing a ‘civilizational update’ of critical hermeneutics.

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Czech description

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Type

J_ost - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Berlin Journal of Critical Theory

ISSN

2567-4048

e-ISSN

2567-4056

Volume of the periodical

5

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

DE - GERMANY

Number of pages

30

Pages from-to

69-98

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