How Not to Learn From Catastrophe: Habermas, Critical Theory and the "Catastrophization" of Political Life

被引：11
作者：
Vazquez-Arroyo, Antonio Y. [1 ,2 ]
机构：
[1] Rutgers State Univ, Dept Polit Sci, Newark, NJ 07102 USA
[2] Rutgers State Univ, Dept Polit Sci, New Brunswick, NJ 08903 USA
来源：
POLITICAL THEORY | 2013年 / 41卷 / 05期
关键词：
catastrophe; crisis; catastrophization; critical theory; Habermas;
D O I：
10.1177/0090591713492776
中图分类号：
D0 [政治学、政治理论];
学科分类号：
0302 ; 030201 ;
摘要：
This essay conceptualizes the intersections between contemporary catastrophes and political life by exploring how narratives of catastrophe mediate discursive and objective processes of catastrophization. It argues for the need to counteract catastrophization, a discursive and objective political phenomenon, by not only re-cognizing how catastrophes impinge on political life but by offering a more critical understanding of this intersection. The essay thus calls for the politicization of catastrophe as a response to the catastrophization of political life. Apropos of these concerns, it engages with Habermas in order to explore how his political theory and interventions illustrate important aspects of the intersections between narratives of catastrophe and contemporary political life, say, how discursive catastrophization leads to the misrecognition of objective modalities of catastrophe. Overall, this essay offers an account of how to conceptualize catastrophe and catastrophization in order to articulate the broad contours of a political theory of catastrophe.
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页码：738 / 765
页数：28
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