Pressing the Subject: Critical Theory and the Death Drive

• Published in: Constellations (Oxford, England) Vol. 22; no. 3; pp. 405 - 419
• Main Author: McIvor, David W.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.09.2015
• Subjects: Critical theory; Habermas, Jurgen; Philosophy; Psychoanalysis

Critical theory is still in the midst of what Axel Honneth has termed a "far-reaching crisis," a crisis that touches on both its conception of the autonomous subject and the political visions sketched on the basis of this conception. This paper argues that this crisis within critical theor...