Towards an Integral Critical Theory of the Present Age
Title:
Towards an Integral Critical Theory of the Present Age
Author:
Martin Beck Matuštík
Appeared in:
Integral review
Paging:
Volume 2007 (2007) nr. 5 pages 227-239
Year:
2007
Contents:
A new model of a critical theory that is integral is introduced. It adds a seventhstage to a six-stage model of critical theory. Building on the model’s predecessors, fromKant, Hegel, and Marx to Habermas and Wilber, this proposal is a three-pronged modelof material, socio-political, and spiritual critique of the present age. Each dimension isnon-reducible to the other. The current model echoes the attempts to bridge social andexistential perspectives by early Marcuse and Sartre, and the author’s prior work that didthis for Habermas and Kierkegaard. This model of an integral critical theory introduces aself-transformational axis, the integer or witness-self, complementing transversally thevertical stages and horizontal states of consciousness.
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