Habermas Knowledge and Human Interests

1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-0-7456-9417-7
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
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E-Book, Englisch, 400 Seiten, E-Book

Habermas describes Knowledge and Human Interests as anattempt to reconstruct the prehistory of modern positivism with theintention of analysing the connections between knowledge and humaninterests. Convinced of the increasing historical and socialimportance of the natural and behavioural sciences, Habermas makesclear how crucial it is to understand the central meanings andjustifications of these sciences. He argues that for too long therelationship between philosophy and science has been distorted.
In this extraordinarily wide-ranging book, Habermas examines theprincipal positions of modern philosophy - Kantianism, Marxism,positivism, pragmatism, hermeneutics, the philosophy of science,linguistic philosophy and phenomenology - to lay bare the structureof the processes of enquiry that determine the meaning and thevalidity of all our statements which claim objectivity.
This edition contains a postscript written by Habermas for thesecond German edition of Knowledge and Human Interests.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Habermas, Jürgen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface.
Translator's Note.
Part I: The Crisis of the Critique of Knowledge.
1. Hegel's Critique of Kant:.
Radicalization or Abolition of the Theory of Knowledge.
2. Marx's Metacritique of Hegel:.
Synthesis Through Social Labour.
3. The Idea of the Theory of Knowledge as SocialTheory..
Part II: Positivism, Pragmatism, Historicism.
4. Comte and Mach: .
The Intention of Early Positivism.
5. Peirce's Logic of Inquiry:.
The Dilemma of a Scholastic Realism Restored by the Logic ofLanguage.
6. The Self-Reflection of the Natural Sciences:.
The Pragmatist Critique of Meaning.
7. Dilthey's Theory of Understanding Expression:.
Ego Identity and Linguistic Communication.
8. The Self-Reflection of the Cultural Sciences:.
The Historicist Critique of Meaning.
Part III: Critique as the Unity of Knowledge andInterest.
9. Reason and Interest:.
Retrospect on Kant and Fichte.
10. Self-Reflection as Science:.
Freud's Psychoanalytic Critique of Meaning.
11. The Scientistic Self-misunderstanding ofMeta-psychology: .
On the Logic of General Interpretation.
12. Psychoanalysis and Social Theory:.
Nieqzsche's Reduction of Cognitive Interests.
Appendix.
Knowledge and Human Interests: A General Perspective.
Jurgen Habermas: A Postscript.
Index.