| Edition |
1st MIT paperback ed. |
| Description |
xx, 430 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Studies in contemporary German social thought
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [386]-422) and indexes. |
| Contents |
Modernity's consciousness of time and its need for self-assurance -- Hegel's concept of modernity : Excursus on Schiller's "Letters on the aesthetic education of man" -- Three perspectives : Left Hegelians, Right Hegelians, and Nietzsche : Excursus on the obsolescence of the production paradigm -- The entry into postmodernity : Nietzsche as a turning point -- The entwinement of myth and Enlightenment : Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno -- The undermining of Western rationalism through the critique of metaphysics : Martin Heidegger -- Beyond a temporalized philosophy of origins : Jacques Derrida's critique of phonocentrism : Excursus on leveling the genre distinction between philosophy and literature -- Between eroticism and general economics : Georges Bataille -- The critique of reason as an unmasking of the human sciences : Michel Foucault -- Some questions concerning the theory of power : Foucault again -- An alternative way out of the philosophy of the subject : communicative versus subject-centered reason : Excursus on Cornelius Castoriadis : the imaginary institution -- The normative content of modernity : Excursus on Luhmann's appropriations of the philosophy of the subject through systems theory. |
| Subject |
Philosophy, Modern -- 20th century.
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Philosophy, Modern -- 19th century.
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Civilization, Modern -- Philosophy.
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| ISBN |
0262581027 (pbk.) |
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0262081636 |
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