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The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity by Frederick Lawrence, Jurgen Habermas, Thomas McCarthy

The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity Frederick Lawrence, Jurgen Habermas, Thomas McCarthy ebook
Publisher: Polity Press
Page: 456
ISBN: 0745608303, 9780745608303
Format: pdf

It gave me better ways of thinking about modernity and much else besides. The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press. It begins by comparing Levinas' and Habermas' articulations of the philosophical problems of modernity. This article examines Levinas as if he were a participant in what Habermas has called `the philosophical discourse of modernity'. Theodor Ludwig Wiesengrund Adorno (September 11, 1903 – August 6, 1969) was a German philosopher who wrote widely in the areas of sociology, social psychology, aesthetics, musicology, and literary criticism. Since the 1960s the Frankfurt School has been guided by Jürgen Habermas' (born 1929) work on communicative reason, linguistic intersubjectivity and what Habermas calls “the philosophical discourse of modernity“. Freed's definition of that discourse runs something like this. The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society. Its impossible projects – is what makes The Man Without Qualities not so much a modernist novel as an 'intervention in the philosophical discourse of modernity'. Heidegger has no objection to such a rational framework if it is understood clearly to be a technical means (it is perhaps this distinction that Habermas occults in 'Philosophical Discourse of Modernity'). The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity by Jürgen Habermas. As an example of this contrast, I refer to the famous critique against Foucault leveled by Habermas in The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity: Twelve Lectures (Habermas, 1987).