The philosophical discourse of modernity/
Jurgen Habermas
- UK : Policy Press, 1987.
- xx,430p. : 24cm.
- Studies in contemporary German social thought .
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