Autoritářská versus kritická teorie

• Authors: Marek Hrubec

Title variants

EN

Authoritarian versus critical theory

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

This article will analyze three fundamental elements of critical social theory: critique, explanation and normativity. It will show that only an articulation of all three elements in their mutual constitutive relations will enable them to take a crucial place in critical social theory. Firstly, it will clarify the need for critical social and political theory to have an internal character. Secondly, it will concentrate on the relations between individual elements of the above-mentioned trichotomy. Thirdly, it will deal with external social criticism. To conclude, it will explain why critical social theory is able to confront the pitfalls of authoritarian theoretical approaches which are widespread in social and political theory in the West and elsewhere.

Keywords

EN

critical social theory; authoritarian theory

Discipline

• PHILOSOPHY: PHILOSOPHY

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Filosofický časopis (Philosophical Journal)
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 60
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 17-40
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Marek Hrubec

• Filosofický časopis, redakce, Filosofický ústav AV ČR, v.v.i., Jilská 1, 110 00 Praha 1, Czech Republic