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

The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity



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ISBN: 0745608303, 9780745608303
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Page: 456


But maybe he has a minor point. And the Dialectic of Reason, was indispensable for a new generation of scholars trying to make sense of Habermas' two-volume Theory of Communicative Action (1981) and his Philosophical Discourse of Modernity (1984). Postmodernism, one might say, is the revenge of the philosophical discourse of modernity upon Marixsm for neglecting problems in the philosophy of history. In their attempts to overcome the philosophy of the subject, Hegel and Marx had been ensnared in its own basic concepts. I don't agree with Habermas's critique of Horkheimer and Adorno [in The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity]. Lawrence, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press 1987, 293. From "The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity". Bernstein has an intriguing argument in Recovering Ethical Life in defence of Foucault and Derrida (and presumably other postmodernists) against Habermas' concerns outlined in The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity. Foucault, "Society Must be Defended", 29-30. Jürgen Habermas, The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity: Twelve Lectures, trans. Everyday life is lived in the medium of cultural form.