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Commentary on Jürgen Habermas, The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity: Twelve Lectures
copyright 1985 by Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main (Germany)
translated by Frederick Lawrence
published 1987 by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press (Cambridge)
Introduction by Thomas McCarthy
I. Modernity’s Consciousness of Time and Its Need for Self-Reassurance
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II. Hegel’s Concept of Modernity
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III. Three Perspectives: Left Hegelians, Right Hegelians, and Nietzsche
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V. The Entwinement of Myth and Enlightenment: Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno
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VI. The Undermining of Western Rationalism through the Critique of Metaphysics: Martin Heidegger
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VII. Beyond a Temporalized Philosophy of Origins: Jacques Derrida’s Critique of Phonocentrism
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IX. The Critique of Reason as an Unmasking of the Human Sciences: Michel Foucault
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