Commentary on Jürgen Habermas, The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity: Twelve Lectures
copyright 1985 by Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main (Germany)
translated by Frederick Lawrence
published 1987 by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press (Cambridge)
Introduction by Thomas McCarthy
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I. Modernity’s Consciousness of Time and Its Need for Self-Reassurance
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II. Hegel’s Concept of Modernity
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Excursus on Schiller’s “Letters on the Aesthetic Education of Man”
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III. Three Perspectives: Left Hegelians, Right Hegelians, and Nietzsche
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Excursus on the Obsolescence of the Production Paradigm
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IV. The Entry into Postmodernity: Nietzsche as a Turning Point
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V. The Entwinement of Myth and Enlightenment: Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno
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VII. Beyond a Temporalized Philosophy of Origins: Jacques Derrida’s Critique of Phonocentrism
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Excursus on Leveling the Genre Distinction between Philosophy and Literature
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VIII. Between Eroticism and General Economics: Georges Bataille
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IX. The Critique of Reason as an Unmasking of the Human Sciences: Michel Foucault
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X. Some Questions Concerning the Theory of Power: Foucault Again
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XI. An Alternative Way out of the Philosophy of the Subject: Communicative versus Subject-Centered Reason
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Excursus on Cornelius Castoriadis: The Imaginary Institution
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XII. The Normative Content of Modernity
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Excursus on Luhmann’s Appropriation of the Philosophy of the Subject through Systems Theory
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