Derrida-Habermas Reader

Name: Derrida-Habermas Reader
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ISBN: 9780226796840

ISBN-10: 0226796841

ISBN-13: 9780226796840

Edition: 2006

Authors: Lasse Thomassen, Jürgen Habermas, Lasse Thomassen

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Jacques Derrida and Jurgen Habermas have long represented opposite camps in contemporary thought. Derrida, who pioneered the intellectual style of inquiry known as deconstruction, ushered in the postmodern age with his dramatic critique of reason; Habermas, on the other hand, has consistently argued in defense of reason, modernity, and the legacy of the Enlightenment. Their many differences led to a long-standing, if scattered, dialogue, evidence of which has been available in only bits and pieces. But now, for the first time, "The" "Derrida-Habermas Reader "brings these pieces together, along with a collection of essays documenting the intellectual relationship between two of the twentieth…

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List price: $40.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 7/1/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 330
Size: 6.75" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English

Lasse Thomassen is Lecturer in Political Theory at Queen Mary, University of London



Acknowledgements


Introduction: Between Deconstruction and Rational Reconstruction



Philosophy and Literature


Introduction



Leveling the Genre Distinction between Philosophy and Literature




Is There a Philosophical Language?




Habermas, Derrida and the Functions of Philosophy




Ethics and Politics


Introduction



An Allegory of Modernity/Postmodernity: Habermas and Derrida




Frankfurt Impromptu - Remarks on Derrida and Habermas




Performative Powerlessness - A Response to Simon Critchley




How to Respond to the Ethical Question




Democracy and Difference: Reflections on the Metapolitics of Lyotard and Derrida




Identity/Difference: Rights, Tolerance and Political Space


Introduction



Dead Rights, Live Futures: On Habermas's Attempt to Reconcile Constitutionalism and Democracy




'A Bizarre, Even Opaque Practice': Habermas on Constitutionalism and Democracy




Religious Tolerance - The Pacemaker for Cultural Rights




Hostipituality




Between Deliberation and Deconstruction: The Condition of Post-National Democracy




Beyond the Nation-State: Europe, Cosmopolitanism and International Law


Introduction



For a Justice to Come: An Interview with Jacques Derrida




February 15, or What Binds Europeans Together: A Plea for a Common Foreign Policy, Beginning in the Core of Europe




Between Hope and Terror: Habermas and Derrida Plead for the Im/Possible



Afterwords


Introduction



Honesty of Thought




A Last Farewell: Derrida's Enlightening Impact



Bibliography


Copyright Acknowledgements


Notes on the Contributors


Index