The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity : Twelve Lectures /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor Principal: Habermas, Jürgen
Otros autores o Colaboradores: Lawrence, Frederick (tr.)
Formato: Libro
Lengua:inglés
Datos de publicación: Cambridge : MIT Press, 1996.
Edición:9th. print.
Series:Studies in Contemporary German Social Trought
Temas:
Notas:Edición original: Der Philosophische Diskurs der Moderne.
Descripción Física:xvii, 430 p.
ISBN:0262581027
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Modernity's consciousness of time and its need for self-reassurance
  • Hegel's concept of modernity
  • Three perspectives: left Hegelians, right Hegelians, and Nietzsche
  • The entwinement of myth and enlightenment: Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno
  • The undermining of western rationalim through the critique of metaphysic: Martin Heidegger
  • Beyond a temporalized philosophy of origins: Jacques Derrida's critique of phonocentrism
  • Between eroticism and general economics: Georges Bataille
  • The critique of reason as an unmasking of the human sciences: Michael Foucault
  • An alternative way out of the philosophy of the subject: communicative versus subject-centered reason
  • The normative content of modernity
  • The entry into posmodernity: Nietzsche as a turning point
  • Some questions concerning the theory of power: Foucault again