Postmetaphysical Thinking Philosophical Essays

Name: Postmetaphysical Thinking Philosophical Essays
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ISBN: 9780262581301

ISBN-10: 0262581302

ISBN-13: 9780262581301

Edition: 1994

Authors: Jï¿½rgen Habermas, WilliamMark Hohengarten

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This collection of Habermas's recent essays on philosophical topics continues the analysis begun in The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity. In a short introductory essay, he outlines the sources of twentieth-century philosophizing, its major themes, and the range of current debates. The remainder of the essays can be seen as his contribution to these debates. Habermas's essay on George Herbert Mead is a focal point of the book. In it he sketches a postmetaphysical, intersubjective approach to questions of individuation and subjectivity. In other essays, he develops his distinctive, communications-theoretic approach to questions of meaning and validity. The book as a whole expands on his…

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List price: $25.00
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 2/3/1994
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 264
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.880

Jï¿½rgen Habermas is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Frankfurt and Professor of Philosophy at Northwestern University. He was recently awarded the 2004 Kyoto Prize for Arts and Philosophy by the Inamori Foundation. The Kyoto Prize is an international award to honor those who have contributed significantly to the scientific, cultural, and spiritual betterment of mankind.



Translator's Introduction



A Return to Metaphysics?



The Horizon of Modernity Is Shifting



Metaphysics after Kant



Themes in Postmetaphysical Thinking



The Turn to Pragmatics



Toward a Critique of the Theory of Meaning



Peirce and Communication



Between Metaphysics and the Critique of Reason



The Unity of Reason in the Diversity of Its Voices



Individuation through Socialization: On George Herbert Mead's Theory of Subjectivity



Philosophy and Science as Literature?


Index