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<i>The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity</i> is a tour de force that has the immediacy and accessibility of the lecture form and the excitement of an encounter across, national cultural boundaries. Habermas takes up the challenge posed by the radical critique of reason in contemporary French poststructuralism. <p>Tracing the odyssey of the philosophical discourse of modernity, Habermas's strategy is to return to those historical "crossroads" at which Hegel and the Young Hegelians, Nietzsche and Heidegger made the fateful decisions that led to this outcome. His aim is to identify and clearly mark out a road indicated but not taken: the <i>determinate</i> negation of subject-centered reason through the concept of communicative rationality. As <i>The Theory of Communicative Action</i> served to place this concept within the history of social theory, these lectures locate it within the history of philosophy. Habermas examines the odyssey of the philosophical discourse of modernity from Hegel through the present and tests his own ideas about the appropriate form of a postmodern discourse through dialogs with a broad range of past and present critics and theorists.</p> <p>The lecture

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Author

Jürgen Habermas

Publisher

Polity in association with Basil Blackwell

Published

1990

Language

EN

ISBN

9780745608303

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Philosophy, History, Humanities

Rating

3.82 / 5 (932 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14