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Book SynopsisBoth an examination of Habermas's conception of modernity and his account of the legacy of the Enlightenment, and a systematic assessment of his work, The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity. The essays are written by philosophers, social theorists, intellectual historians and literary critics.
Table of ContentsList of Contributors vii
Acknowledgements ix
Introduction 1
Maurizio Passerin d'Entreves
1 Modernity: An Unfinished Project 38
Jurgen Habermas
PART I CRITICAL REJOINDERS
2. The Discourse of Modernity: Hegel, Nietzsche, Heidegger and Habermas 59
Fred Dallmayr
3 Deconstruction, Postmodernism and Philosophy: Habermas on Derrida 97
Christopher Norris
4 Splitting the Difference: Haberma's Critique of Derrida 124
David Couzens Hoy
5 Habermas and Foucault 147
James Schmidt
6 Intersubjectivity and the Monadic Core of the Psyche: Hebermas and Castoriadis on the Unconscious 172
Joel Whitebook
PART II THEMATIC REFORMULATIONS
7 Two Versions of the Linguistic Turn: Habermas and Poststructuralism 197
James Bohman
8 Habermas and the Question of Alterity 221
Diana Coole
9 The Causality of Fate: Modernity and Modernism in Habermas 245
Jay M. Bernstein
10 The Subject of Justice in Postmodern Discourse: Aesthetic Judgement and Political Rationality 269
David Ingram
Index 303
