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[Honneths aim is] to provide an appropriate grounding for the renewal
of critical social theory, which would operate comprehensively at the
level of contemporary social and political challenges. []. With
Habermas, and those oriented towards deliberative democratic models
of legitimation, Honneth proceeds from inter-subjectivist premises,
leaving behind both the problematic heritage of the philosophy of the
subject, and the associated philosophical and social scientific
shortcomings of methodological individualism. However, Honneth
moves beyond the confines of the formers lines of inquiry by exploring
an integrated approach to the conditions of the formation of positive
relations-to-self through intimate, legal and generalised relationships,
mediated through registers beyond merely communicative action,
which has been central to work in the context of the linguistic turn.
The latter orientation has given rise to misapprehensions of the depth
and scope of the inter-subjectivist turn in critical theory, not least in
the context of the advances of the constructivist research project in IR.
(709)
Weber, M. (2010). Critical Theory and Contemporary World
Politics. International Studies Review, 12(3).
[CIRT has had a considerable influence on IR] The recent entrenchment
of constructivismpace its heterogeneityas a central disciplinary
research framework is, viewed in this context, in the broadest sense an
indication of just how sustained a challenge reflectivism turned out
to be for the main contenders in what has sometimes been called the
inter-paradigm debate. To some extent, this perhaps unexpected
efficacy can be understood better, when the formative moves of
constructivisms arrival are taken into account. Critical theoretic
scholarship, then, performed the prominent function of keeping IR as a
disciplinary conversation in touch with philosophical, theoretical, and
methodological debates in cogent disciplines. (444)