Knowledge and Human Interests

Boston: Beacon Press, 2002. viii, 356 pages; 21 cm. Translation of Erkenntnis und Interesse. Tight, clean copy. CONTENTS: Preface; Translator's note; Part I. The crisis of the critique of knowledge. 1. Hegel's critique of Kant: radicalization or abolition of the theory of knowledge; 2. Marx's metacritique of Hegel: synthesis through social labor; 3. The idea of the theory of knowledge as social theory; Part II. Positivism, pragmatism, historicism. 4. Comte and Mach: the intention of early positivism; 5. Peirce's logic of inquiry: the dilemma of a scholastic realism restored by the logic of language; 6. The self-reflection of the natural sciences: the pragmatist critique of meaning; 7. Dilthey's theory of understanding expression: ego identity and linguistic communication; 8. The self-reflection of the cultural sciences: the historicist critique of meaning; Part III. Critique as the unity of knowledge and interest. 9. Reason and interest: retrospect on Kant and Fichte; 10. Self-reflection as science: Freud's psychoanalytic critique of meaning; 11. The scientistic self-misunderstanding of metapsychology: on the logic of general interpretation; 12. Psychoanalysis and social theory: Nietzsche's reduction of cognitive interests; Appendix: Knowledge and human interests: a general perspective.. Paperback. Fine. 8vo.