This collection of ten essays offers the first systematic assessment of Jürgen Habermas's Philosophical Discourse of Modernity, a book that defended the rational potential of the modern age against the depiction of modernity as a spent epoch. The essays (of which four are newly commissioned, five were published in the journal Praxis International, and one -- by Habermas -- first appeared in translation in New Critique) are divided into two sections: Critical Rejoinders and Thematic Reformulations.An opening essay by d'Entrèves sets out the main issues and orients the debate between Habermas and the postmodernists by identifying two different senses of responsibility: a responsibility to act versus a responsibility to otherness (an openness to difference, dissonance, and ambiguity). These are linked with two alternative understandings of the primary function of language: action-orienting versus world-disclosing. This is a fruitful way of looking at the issues that Habermas has raised in his attempt to resurrect and complete the project of Enlightenment.Habermas's essay discusses the main themes of his book in the context of a critical engagement with neoconservative cultural and political trends. The main body of essays offer an interesting collection of points of view, for and against Habermas's position by philosophers, social scientists, intellectual historians, and literary critics.SECTIONS & CONTRIBUTORS : Introduction, Maurizio Passerin d'Entrèves. Modernity versus Postmodernity, Jürgen Habermas. Critical Rejoinders : Fred Dallmayr. Christopher Norris. David C. Hoy. James Schmidt. Joel Whitebook. Thematic Reformulations : James Bohman. Diana Coole. Jay M. Bernstein. David Ingram.
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Seyla Benhabib is Eugene Meyer Professor of Political Science and Philosophy at Yale University and author of The Claims of Culture: Equality and Diversity in the Global Era and other books.
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monadic core, philosophical modernism, ethical totality, false sublation, social reification, truth candidates, depth hermeneutics, comprehensive reason, three validity claims, communicative reason, radical imagination, normative rightness, artistic modernism, value spheres, communicative rationality, cultural modernity, local reason, communicative model, expert cultures, genre distinction Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Jurgen Habermas, Jacques Derrida, The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity, Michel Foucault, Polity Press, The Order of Things, The Birth of the Clinic, The Archaeology of Knowledge, Frankfurt School, Philosophy of Right, Young Hegelians, Alan Bass, Cambridge University Press, Richard Rorty, Rodolphe Gasché, Sigmund Freud, John Searle, Jonathan Culler, Margins of Philosophy, Max Weber, Postmetaphysical Thinking, Standard Edition, University of Chicago Press, Aesthetic Theory New!
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monadic core, philosophical modernism, ethical totality, false sublation, social reification, truth candidates, depth hermeneutics, comprehensive reason, three validity claims, communicative reason, radical imagination, normative rightness, artistic modernism, value spheres, communicative rationality, cultural modernity, local reason, communicative model, expert cultures, genre distinction Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Jurgen Habermas, Jacques Derrida, The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity, Michel Foucault, Polity Press, The Order of Things, The Birth of the Clinic, The Archaeology of Knowledge, Frankfurt School, Philosophy of Right, Young Hegelians, Alan Bass, Cambridge University Press, Richard Rorty, Rodolphe Gasché, Sigmund Freud, John Searle, Jonathan Culler, Margins of Philosophy, Max Weber, Postmetaphysical Thinking, Standard Edition, University of Chicago Press, Aesthetic Theory New!
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- The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity by Jurgen Habermas on 39 pages
- The Theory of Communicative Action: Lifeworld and Systems, a Critique of Functionalist Reason, Volume 2 by Jurgen Habermas (Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt); Translated by: Thomas McCarthy (Northwestern University) on 20 pages
- RC Series Bundle: Madness and Civilization (Routledge Classics) by Michel Foucault on 12 pages
- Being and Time by Martin Heidegger on 11 pages
- RC Series Bundle: The Birth of the Clinic (Routledge Classics) by Michel Foucault on 8 pages
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- Contemporary Sociological Theory by Craig Calhoun in Front Matter, page 362, and page 363
- The Politics of Postmodernity by James M. M. Good on page 145, and page 146
- Religious Education between Modernization and Globalization: New Perspectives on the United States and Germany by Richard Robert Osmer on page 5, and page 48
- Herbert Marcuse: A Critical Reader by John Abromeit in Front Matter, and page 207
- Habermas and Aesthetics: The Limits of Communicative Reason by Pieter Duvenage in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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