Opening book details…
Can I read The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity: Twelve Lectures (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought) on EtoBox?
The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity: Twelve Lectures (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought) by Jurgen Habermas, translated by Frederick Lawrence, Jürgen Habermas, Habermas, Jürgen, Jürgen Habermas is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity: Twelve Lectures (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought) about?
The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity 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. 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 determinate negation of subject-centered reason through the concept of communicative rationality. As The Theory of Communicative Action 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. The lectures on Georges Bataille, Michel
Who reads The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity: Twelve Lectures (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought)?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Jurgen Habermas, translated by Frederick Lawrence, Jürgen Habermas, Habermas, Jürgen, Jürgen Habermas
- Publisher
- Polity in association with Basil Blackwell
- Published
- 1987
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780745694474
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Philosophy, History, Western
- Rating
- 3.82 / 5 (932 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
More by Jurgen Habermas, translated by Frederick Lawrence, Jürgen Habermas, Habermas, Jürgen, Jürgen Habermas
Similar books
- Habermas And The Unfinished Project Of Modernity: Critical Essays On The Philosophical Discourse Of Modernity (studies In Contemporary German Social Thought) — Maurizio Passerin d'Entrà̈ves, Seyla Benhabib (1997)
- Philosophical-political Profiles (studies In Contemporary German Social Thought) — Jürgen Habermas (1985)
- Postmetaphysical Thinking: Philosophical Essays (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought) — Jürgen Habermas (1992)
- Habermas and Modernity (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought) — edited with an introduction by Richard J. Bernstein (1985)
- On the Pragmatics of Communication (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought) (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought (Paperback)) — Jürgen Habermas; Maeve Cooke (1998)
- Hegel: Three Studies (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought). — Theodor W. Adorno (1994)