The philosophical discourse of modernity : twelve lectures / Jürgen Habermas ; translated by Frederick Lawrence.

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.