Postmetaphysical Thinking: Philosophical Essays

Erscheinungsjahr 1994
ISBN: 978-0-262-58130-1
Verlag: MIT PR

Buch, Englisch, 261 Seiten, Format (B × H): 149 mm x 227 mm, Gewicht: 399 g

Reihe: Studies in Contemporary German

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 earlier efforts to define a middle
ground between nostalgic revivals of metaphysical conceptions of reason and radical
deconstructions of reason. Jürgen Habermas is Professor of Philosophy at the
University of Frankfurt.The Essays: The Horizon of Modernity is Shifting.
Metaphysics after Kant. Themes in Postmetaphysical Thinking. Toward a Critique of
the Theory of Meaning. Peirce and Communication. 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?

Autoren/Hrsg.

Habermas, Jurgen

Habermas, Jürgen

Weitere Mitwirkende

Hohengarten, William Mark

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: 20./21. Jahrhundert

Über Autor(innen)

Habermas, Jürgen
Jürgen 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.

Jürgen 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 spritual betterment of mankind.