Description
Book SynopsisIn this new collection of recent essays, Habermas takes up and pursues the line of analysis begun in The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity. He begins by outlining the sources and central themes of twentieth-century philosophy, and the range of current debates.
Table of ContentsTranslator's Introduction.
Part I: A Return to Metaphysics?.
1. The Horizon of Modernity Is Shifting.
2. Metaphysics after Kant.
3. Themes in Postmetaphysical Thinking.
Part II: The Turn to Pragmatics:.
4. Toward a Critique of the Theory of Meaning.
5. Pearce and Communication.
Part III: Between Metaphysics and the Critique of Reason:.
6. The Unity of Reason in the Diversity of Its Voices.
7. Individuation through Socialization: On George Herbert Mead's Theory of Subjectivity.
8. Philosophy and Science as Literature?.
Index.
