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

The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity Frederick Lawrence, Jurgen Habermas, Thomas McCarthy ebook
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Page: 456
ISBN: 0745608303, 9780745608303
Publisher: Polity Press

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'. Freed's definition of that discourse runs something like this. The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity. Since the 1960s the Frankfurt School has been guided by Jürgen Habermas' (born 1929) work on communicative reason, linguistic intersubjectivity and what Habermas calls “the philosophical discourse of modernity“. The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society. Philosophical discourse of modernity when it is suggested in the last chapter that if Foucault's theory(!) is pushed foward, it dialectically result in Habermas. In their attempts to overcome the philosophy of the subject, Hegel and Marx had been ensnared in its own basic concepts. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press. Thus, Habermas's project is rooted in modernity and Enlightenment with claims of universalization of action norms (discourse ethics) to institutionalize democratic deliberative polity based on the rule of law. Jürgen Habermas, “Modernity: An Unfinished Project,” in Habermas and the Unfinished Project of Modernity: Critical Essays on The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity, ed. From "The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity".