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AbstractIt is widely held that reflexivity is the defining feature of selfhood: the ability of the self to stand in a certain relation to itself. The question of how exactly to theorize this self-relation, however, has been the source of ongoing debate. In recent years, Kantian and post-Kantian approaches such as Christine Korsgaard's constitutivism and Richard Moran's commitment view, have attempted to establish the priority of the agential over the epistemic self-relation, thereby re-orientating the debate away from metaphysics and epistemology towards ethics and moral psychology. Despite the important progress they make towards a de-alienated and reified understanding of the self-relation, however, I argue that the Kantian paradigm is ultimately inadequate because its methodological individualism makes it incapable of accounting for the irreducibly social dimension of the self-relation and, therefore, of successfully making the transition from ethics to social and political philosophy. In other words, an adequate ontology of the self-relation is possible only as a social ontology. In order to motivate this thesis, I appeal to two examples that expose the "social deficit" of the Kantian approach: Frantz Fanon's phenomenology of race/racism in "The Lived Experience of the Black" and the phenomenon of cultural collapse in Jonathan Lear'sRadical Hope. I then go on to provide a sketch of an alternative approach based on the notion of "self-appropriation", distinguishing it from Rahel Jaeggi's use of the term in her recent critique of alienation, in the process.

Cover -- Halftitle page -- Series page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Preface Ľubomír Dunaj and Kurt C.M. Mertel -- Introduction Ľubomír Dunaj and Kurt C.M. Mertel -- Part I: Critical Hermeneutics as Social Theory -- Part II: Recognition, Cosmopolitanism, Religion -- Part III: Toward a Critical Hermeneutics of the Present -- Notes -- Part One Critical Hermeneutics as Social Theory -- 1 The Case for a Critical Hermeneutics From the Understanding of Power to the Power of Understanding -- Introduction -- I. The Epistemological Break: Between Understanding and Explanation -- II. Hermeneutics of Power à la Kögler -- III. Critical Theory as Critical Hermeneutics -- IV. Limitations and Shortcomings -- Summary -- Notes -- References -- 2 Power, the Body and Reflexivity. Hans-Herbert Kögler's Hermeneutics in the Context of Critical Sociology -- Introduction -- Critical Theory and Hermeneutics in Frankfurt -- The Critical Hermeneutics Project -- Habitus as the Boundary of Hermeneutic Reflexivity -- The Self-Will of the Body. Enigma Agency in the Context of Alfred Lorenzer's In-Depth Hermeneutics -- Closing Remarks -- Notes -- References -- 3 Naturalizing Kögler -- Why It Is a Problem -- Kögler's Project -- Materialism and Children -- Where does this Leave Us? -- Note -- References -- Part Two Recognition, Cosmopolitanism, Religion -- 4 The Moral Stance, Our Moralizing Nature, and the Hermeneutic and Empathic Dimension of Human Relations -- Introduction -- Naturalism and Strategies for Validating the Normative Authority of the Moral Stance -- Empathy, Human Sociality, and the Moral Stance: Adam Smith and Kant's Sensus Communis -- Kögler's Hermeneutic Conception of Morality -- Notes -- References -- 5 Dialogue, Cosmopolitanism, and Language Education -- Introduction -- Dialogue -- Cosmopolitanism -- Language Education -- Notes -- References.

This volume examines various points of contact between Marxism and phenomenology. Although these traditions can appear conceptually incompatible, the contributors reveal productive complementarities on themes such as alienation, reification, and ecology, which illuminate and can help to resolve the crises of contemporary capitalism.