The Limits of Understanding -- A Spiritual Dialogue Between Lyotard and Habermas

Author: Frank
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Publish Date: 2002-01-01
Features: This work expresses the author's perspective on sparking a virtual debate between Jean-Fran?ois Lyotard and Jürgen Habermas. The focus is on whether we must make a decision—whether, as Lyotard believes, we have inevitably escaped the meaning reserves of "the West" ("modernity" being its later glory), or whether "modernity," as Habermas envisions, possesses a tool to elevate its learning ability to self-criticism. This work can be seen as an "intervention" in this "intellectual dialogue."