The philosophical discourse of modernity : twelve lectures /

• Main Author: Habermas, Jürgen, 1929- (συγγραφέας)
• Other Authors: Lawrence, Frederick G. (μεταφραστής)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 1995 printing, c1987.
• Series: Studies in contemporary German social thought
• Subjects: Φιλοσοφία, Νεότερη > 20ός αιώνας; Φιλοσοφία, Νεότερη > 19ος αιώνας; Πολιτισμός, Σύγχρονος > Φιλοσοφία

Table of Contents:

• I. Modernity's Consciousness of Time and Its Need for Self-Reassurance
• II. Hegel's Concept of Modernity
• III. Three Perspective: Left Hegelians, Right Hegelians, and Nietzsche
• IV. The Entry into Postmodernity: Nietzsche as a Turning Point
• V. The Entwinement of Myth and Enlightnment: Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno
• VI. The Undermining of Western Rationalism through the Critique of Metaphysics: Martin Heidegger
• VII. Beyond a Temporalized Philosophy of Origins: Jacques Derrida's Critique of Phonocentrism
• VIII. Between Eroticism and General Economics: Georges Bataille
• IX. The Critique of Reason as an Unmasking of the Human Sciences: Michel Foucault
• X. Some Questions Concerning the Theory of Power: Foucault Again
• XI. An Alternative Way out of the Philosophy of the Subject: Communicative versus Subject-Centered Reason
• XII. The Normative Content of Modernity