TY  - JOUR
A1  - Müller-Doohm, Stefan
A1  - Yos, Roman
T1  - Fatale Orthodoxie
BT  - Kritische Theorie auf der schiefen Bahn des Dezisionismus 
Eine Replik auf Fabian Freyenhagen
JF  - Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie : Zweimonatsschrift der internationalen philosophischen Forschung
N2  - Our reply to Fabian Freyenhagen’s article “Was ist orthodoxe Kritische Theorie?” (DZPhil 65.3 [2017], 456-469) raises the question whether his proposal that Critical Theory only “be adequately and appropriately critical” without a program of justification spares the search for any general criteria. Answering negatively we conversely want to recall, particularly with regard to Horkheimers’s and Adornos’s Dialectic of Enlightment as well as Habermas‘s concept of an emancipatory interest, that such a criterion as a normative foundation of critique is crucial not only for systematical purposes, but also recognised as necessary in this respect by Adorno, who Freyenhagen wants to play off against programs of justification. Critical Theory needs to be clear in this respect. Against this background we are questioning Freyenhagen‘s recourse to an “interest in abolishing social injustice” as the “only criterion for Critical Theory.” Because Freyenhagen ignores the fact that Critical Theory has been understood by its representatives in a twofold manner – as a theoretical program of justification for one and secondly as a cultural diagnosis – his plea for an orthodox Critical Theory is endangered by decisionism.
KW  - Critical Theory
KW  - program of justification
KW  - Decisionism
KW  - Horkheimer
KW  - Adorno
KW  - Habermas
Y1  - 2019
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1515/dzph-2018-0056
SN  - 0012-1045
SN  - 2192-1482
VL  - 66
IS  - 6
SP  - 788
EP  - 801
PB  - De Gruyter
CY  - Berlin
ER  -