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Habermas and the Unfinished Project of Modernity
Critical Essays on The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity
Maurizio Passerin D'Entreves (Edited by), MP D′Entreves (Author), Seyla Benhabib (Edited by)
9780745614526, Polity Press
Hardback, published 11 November 1996
320 pages
23.5 x 15.6 x 2.9 cm, 0.581 kg
This collection of ten essays offers the first systematic assessment of Jürgen Habermas's "Philosophical Discourse of Modernity," a book that defended the rational potential of the modern age against the depiction of modernity as a spent epoch. The essays (of which four are newly commissioned, five were published in the journal "Praxis International," and one -- by Habermas -- first appeared in translation in "New Critique" ) are divided into two sections: "Critical Rejoinders" and "Thematic Reformulations." An opening essay by d'Entrè ves sets out the main issues and orients the debate between Habermas and the postmodernists by identifying two different senses of responsibility: a responsibility to act versus a responsibility to otherness (an openness to difference, dissonance, and ambiguity). These are linked with two alternative understandings of the primary function of language: action-orienting versus world-disclosing. This is a fruitful way of looking at the issues that Habermas has raised in his attempt to resurrect and complete the project of Enlightenment. Habermas's essay discusses the main themes of his book in the context of a critical engagement with neoconservative cultural and political trends. The main body of essays offer an interesting collection of points of view, for and against Habermas's position by philosophers, social scientists, intellectual historians, and literary critics. SECTIONS CONTRIBUTORS: "Introduction," Maurizio Passerin d'Entrè ves. "Modernity versus Postmodernity," Jü rgen Habermas. Critical Rejoinders: Fred Dallmayr. Christopher Norris. David C. Hoy. James Schmidt. Joel Whitebook. ThematicReformulations: James Bohman. Diana Coole. Jay M. Bernstein. David Ingram
List of Contributors vii Acknowledgements ix Introduction 1 1 Modernity: An Unfinished Project 38 PART I CRITICAL REJOINDERS 2. The Discourse of Modernity: Hegel, Nietzsche, Heidegger and Habermas 59 3 Deconstruction, Postmodernism and Philosophy: Habermas on Derrida 97 4 Splitting the Difference: Haberma's Critique of Derrida 124 5 Habermas and Foucault 147 6 Intersubjectivity and the Monadic Core of the Psyche: Hebermas and Castoriadis on the Unconscious 172 PART II THEMATIC REFORMULATIONS 7 Two Versions of the Linguistic Turn: Habermas and Poststructuralism 197 8 Habermas and the Question of Alterity 221 9 The Causality of Fate: Modernity and Modernism in Habermas 245 10 The Subject of Justice in Postmodern Discourse: Aesthetic Judgement and Political Rationality 269 Index 303
Maurizio Passerin d'Entreves
Jurgen Habermas
Fred Dallmayr
Christopher Norris
David Couzens Hoy
James Schmidt
Joel Whitebook
James Bohman
Diana Coole
Jay M. Bernstein
David Ingram
Subject Areas: Sociology & anthropology [JH]
