Habermas Commentary/Books/PDM

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)

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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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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VI. The Undermining of Western Rationalism through the Critique of Metaphysics: Martin Heidegger

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VII. Beyond a Temporalized Philosophy of Origins: Jacques Derrida’s Critique of Phonocentrism

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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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Excursus on Cornelius Castoriadis: The Imaginary Institution

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XII. The Normative Content of Modernity

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