The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity by Frederick Lawrence, Jurgen Habermas, Thomas McCarthy

The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity



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Jürgen Habermas, The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity. The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity. Which has been predominant in the philosophical discourse on virtue. (MIT Press: Cambridge, Mass, 1996). The Dialectic of Enlightenment. Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity: Twelve Lectures. Horkheimer, Max & Adorno, Theodor W. William Burroughs Baboon has started reading Habermas' 1987 text, The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity: Twelve Lectures. The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society. For short accounts relevant for the present purpose, see Habermas, Jurgen, The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity, translated by Frederick G. Thus, on this line of reasoning, in the early twentieth century German philosopher Martin Heidegger theorized modernity as a huge system of “enframing” that reduced things to mere objects and functions available for human use. 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). Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press. 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. Much better to follow Habermas, who in the Philosophical Discourses of Modernity endeavors to engage in conversation with the great thinkers he assays. (Stanford University Press: Stanford, CA, 2002). 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.