The philosophical discourse of modernity/ Jurgen Habermas

Introduction by Thomas McCarthy
Preface
I Modernity's Consciousness of Time and Its
Need for Self-Reassurance
II Hegel's Concept of Modernity
Excursus on Schiller's "Letters on the Aesthetic
Education of Man"
III Three Perspectives: Left Hegelians, Right
Hegelians, and Nietzsche
Excursus on the Obsolescence of the Production
Paradigm
IV The Entry into Postmodernity: Nietzsche as a
Turning Point
V The Entwinement of Myth and
Enlightenment: 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
Excursus on Leveling the Genre Distinction between
Philosophy and Literature
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
Excursus on Cornelius Castoriadis: The Imaginary
Institution
XII The Normative Content of Modernity
Excursus on Luhmann's Appropriation of the
Philosophy of the Subject through Systems Theory