Philosophical Discourse of Modernity (Humanities and Society Translation Series)

Author: Habermas
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Publish Date: 2004-12-01
Features: This book collects twelve of Habermas's lectures. They are a response to the radical rational critique of French post-structuralism, as well as a comprehensive and fair assessment of the mainstream European philosophy after Kant. Habermas traces the historical turning points that have led to our contemporary situation and, through extensive dialogues with many critics and theorists of the past and present, experiments with his own views on the appropriate form of postmodern discourse. The chapters on Georges Bataille, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, and Cornelius Castoriadis are particularly noteworthy, as they are considered some of the earliest fruits of mutual influence between recent German and French thought.