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

The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity



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Miller (trans.), London: Allen & Unwin, Ltd. It begins by comparing Levinas' and Habermas' articulations of the philosophical problems of modernity. This article examines Levinas as if he were a participant in what Habermas has called `the philosophical discourse of modernity'. Jürgen Habermas, The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity. Hegel, G.W.F., 1969, Hegel's Science of Logic, A.V. I don't agree with Habermas's critique of Horkheimer and Adorno [in The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity]. But maybe he has a minor point. I do recommend getting hold of his texts, such as Legitimation Crisis and The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity). 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. Habermas, Jürgen, 1987, The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity, Frederick Lawrence (trans.), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.