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The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity
Twelve Lectures
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The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity: Twelve Lectures. Introduction by Thomas McCarthy, translated by Frederick Lawrence.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction
- Preface
- I: Modernity's Consciousness of Time and Its Need for Self-Reassurance
- II: Hegel's Concept of Modernity
- Excursus on Schiller's "Letters on the Aesthetic Education of Man"
- III: Three Perspectives: Left Hegelians, Right Hegelians, and Nietzsche
- Excursus on the Obsolescence of the Production Paradigm
- IV: The Entry into Postmodernity: Nietzsche as a Turning Point
- V: The Entwinement of Myth and Enlightenment: Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno
- VI: The Undermining of Western Rationalism through the Critique of Metaphysics: Martin Heidegger
- VII: Beyond a Temporalized Philosophy of Origins: Jacques Derrida's Critique of Phonocentrism
- Excursus on Leveling the Genre Distinction between Philosophy and Literature
- VIII: Between Eroticism and General Economics: Georges Bataille
- IX: The Critique of Reason as an Unmasking of the Human Sciences: Michel Foucault
- X: Some Questions Concerning the Theory of Power: Foucault Again
- XI: An Alternative Way out of the Philosophy of the Subject: Communicative versus Subject-Centered Reason
- Excursus on Cornelius Castoriadis: The Imaginary Institution
- XII: The Normative Content of Modernity
- Excursus on Luhmann's Appropriation of the Philosophy of the Subject through Systems Theory
- Notes
- Name Index
- Subject and Title Index