- Uniform Title
- Philosophische Diskurs der Moderne. English
- Series
- Studies in contemporary German social thought
Studies in contemporary German social thought.
- Format
- Book
- Author/Creator
- Habermas, Jürgen.
- Published
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 1990
©1987
- Edition
- First MIT paperback edition
- Contents
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Modernity's consciousness of time and its need for self-assurance
Hegel's concept of modernity
Three perspectives : Left Hegelians, Right Hegelians, and Nietzsche
The entry into postmodernity : Nietzsche as a turning point
The entwinement of myth and Enlightenment : Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno
The undermining of Western rationalism through the critique of metaphysics : 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 : Michel Foucault
Some questions concerning the theory of power : Foucault again
An alternative way out of the philosophy of the subject : communicative versus subject-centered reason
The normative content of modernity.
- Notes
-
Includes bibliographical references (pages 386-422) and indexes.
Modernity's consciousness of time and its need for self-assurance -- Hegel's concept of modernity -- Three perspectives : Left Hegelians, Right Hegelians, and Nietzsche -- The entry into postmodernity : Nietzsche as a turning point -- The entwinement of myth and Enlightenment : Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno -- The undermining of Western rationalism through the critique of metaphysics : 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 : Michel Foucault -- Some questions concerning the theory of power : Foucault again -- An alternative way out of the philosophy of the subject : communicative versus subject-centered reason -- The normative content of modernity.
