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The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity: Twelve Lectures
"Destined to be the most widely discussed intervention into the increasingly heated controversy over the apparent transition from modernity to postmodernity, Habermas's lastest major effort is certain to raise the level of the debate several notches."
-- Martin Jay These lectures constitute Jü rgen Habermas's response to the challenge posed by the radical critique of reaso...more
-- Martin Jay These lectures constitute Jü rgen Habermas's response to the challenge posed by the radical critique of reaso...more
Paperback, 450 pages
Published
March 14th 1990
by MIT Press (MA)
(first published 1985)
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While his commitment to the Enlightenment project is indeed laudable, Habermas refuses to acknowledge the fact that Modernity's characteristic faith in the ineluctable progress of reason has been decisively refuted. Already, in his Theses on the Philosophy of History, Walter Benjamin exposed the ideology of Progress for what it had become: bankrupt and complicit with the ascendance of fascism. The horrors of the second World War were not the result of a regression into barbarism, but were rather...more
I only read the first essay of this book, since I am concerned with Habermas' explanation of time in modernity. I am working on a paper about the uses of time in three film versions (one modernist, one postmodernist, and one relatively pre-modernist) of King Lear, and Habermas was one of the sources in David Harvey's The Condition of Postmodernity, which is a key text. So I figured I'd go to Habermas, though he wasn't as specific about the uses and conceptions of time as I had hoped he would be...more
The publisher's description of the book is inaccurate and does the book a disservice. This is not a critique of French philosophy, but a critique of the "philosophy of the subject" so en vogue and monolithic in French philosophy. Having said that, it originates in German philosophy, namely Nietzsche and Adorno who also come in from a critique from Habermas. Philosophy, he believes, has been led away from demonstrable conclusions into a morass of reflexive and reductionist rhetoric that ill serve...more
Tough read. Nevertheless it is AMAZING. Habermas discusses (continental?) philosophy since Hegel, focusing broadly on the critique of modernity as formulated by Nietzsche and extended through a Nietzsche-Bataille-Foucault path and a Nietzsche-Heidegger-Derrida path. I don't entirely agree with Habermas, but he is an amazing philosopher.
El tema me gusta, sin embargo detesto a los filósofos que escriben en forma laberíntica, es decir, ellos ponen palabras tras palabras y tu intentas dilucidar que cojones han querido decir para que después de 400 hojas te des cuenta que podría haberse explicado en tan sólo 28.
One of those books I read in college which is marked up, well-thumbed, and I probably wrote a "B" paper on it ten years ago but I really only remember maybe a sentence's worth- if that- at this point.
An overview of the most important philosophical trends in twentieth century continental philosophy, Habermas is judicious and critical of the philosophers and their positions.
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I'm definitely not an Habermas guy. But I allow that he's interesting, if misguided.
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Philosophy is apparently not my thing. Confusing! Wordy!
Serious misreading of Foucault and genealogy as a method.
Una gran violación intelectual
not jurgy's best but still good...
While I'm not big on Habermas' ideas I loved his understanding of the progression of modern philosophy.
A very excellent work from Jurgen Habermas...
I vaguely remember liking this around 1998, but I cannot remember a god damn thing about it, which means that I am old (39) and maybe that this is not the single greatest book in the world. Got any soup?
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Jürgen Habermas is a German sociologist and philosopher in the tradition of critical theory and American pragmatism. He is perhaps best known for his work on the concept of the public sphere, the topic of his first book entitled The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere. His work focuses on the foundations of social theory and epistemology, the analysis of advanced capitalistic societies...more
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