Jürgen Habermas

The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity (eBook, ePUB)

Twelve Lectures
Übersetzer: Lawrence, Frederick

• Format: ePub

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The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity: Twelve Lectures. Introduction by Thomas McCarthy, translated by Frederick Lawrence. Das E-Book The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity wird angeboten von John Wiley & Sons und wurde mit folgenden Begriffen kategorisiert: Gesellschaftstheorie, Social Theory, Sociology, Soziologie

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 456
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780745694474
• Artikelnr.: 43978579

Autorenporträt

Jürgen Habermas is a German philosopher and sociologist in the tradition of critical theory and pragmatism. He is perhaps best known for his theories on communicative rationality and the public sphere. In 2014, Prospect readers chose Habermas as one of their favourites among the "world's leading thinkers". Thomas McCarthy is the author of The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity: Twelve Lectures, published by Wiley.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction by Thomas McCarthy vii
Preface xix
I Modernity's Consciousness of Time and Its Need for Self-Reassurance 1
II Hegel's Concept of Modernity 23
Excursus on Schiller's" Letters on the Aesthetic Education of Man" 45
III Three Perspectives: Left Hegelians, Right Hegelians, and Nietzsche 51
Excursus on the Obsolescence of the Production Paradigm 75
IV The Entry into Postmodernity: Nietzsche as a Turning Point 83
V The Entwinement of Myth and Enlightenment: Max Horkheimer and Theodor
Adorno 106
VI The Undermining of Western Rationalism through the Critique of
Metaphysics: Martin Heidegger 131
VII Beyond a Temporalized Philosophy of Origins: Jacques Derrida's Critique
of Phonocentrism 161
Excursus on Leveling the Genre Distinction between Philosophy and
Literature 185
VIII Between Eroticism and General Economics: Georges Bataille 211
IX The Critique of Reason as an Unmasking of the Human Sciences: Michel
Foucault 238
X Some Questions Concerning the Theory of Power: Foucault Again 266
XI An Alternative Way out of the Philosophy of the Subject: Communicative
versus Subject- Centered Reason 294
Excursus on Cornelius Castoriadis: The Imaginary Institution 327
XII The Normative Content of Modernity 336
Excursus on Luhmann's Appropriation of the Philosophy of the Subject
through Systems Theory 368
Notes 386
Name Index 423
Subject and Title Index 427