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The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity Frederick Lawrence, Jurgen Habermas, Thomas McCarthy
Publisher: Polity Press

Title: The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity. Postmodernism, one might say, is the revenge of the philosophical discourse of modernity upon Marixsm for neglecting problems in the philosophy of history. This is a general introduction to Habermas' post 1981 magnum opus Theory of Communicative Action social and political philosophy. Moral Consciousness and Communicative Action, 1990. <>The obvious starting point for the analysis of the Habermas – Derrida debate is Habermas' 1987 book The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity in which one 'lecture' and one 'excurses' deal with Derrida. Jurgan Habermas, “The Entwinement of Myth and Enlightenment: Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno,” in The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity: Twelve Lectures, Cambridge: MIT Press, 1987, pp. Thompson | LibraryThing Feminists Read Habermas: Gendering the Subject of Discourse by M. This perspective is precisely part of a discourse of modernity that is established in the 19th century in the wake of the Industrial Revolution and becomes dominant in the USA after the Scopes trial in the 1920s. The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity: twelve lectures, Frederick Lawrence (trans.). Freed's definition of that discourse runs something like this. The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity:. Gender and Agency: Reconfiguring the Subject in Feminist and. Everyday life is lived in the medium of cultural form. Discourse is an activity designed in order to bring ideas down from the proverbial heavens and affect the course of our lives, our destinies, and our polis. Scientific reasoning does not sit easily with the presuppositions of any religion, and the work of Enlightenment philosophers made the belief in God appear irrational…It is easy to imagine Mohammed Atta, at Hamburg . Its impossible projects – is what makes The Man Without Qualities not so much a modernist novel as an 'intervention in the philosophical discourse of modernity'. Nihilism in critiquing disciplinary power or offering alternative models based in the care of the self, for instance, he is engaging in “crypto-normativity” (Habermas' term in The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity, 1992). I do recommend getting hold of his texts, such as Legitimation Crisis and The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity). The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity, 1987. No one else in the meeting had heard of Habermas.