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The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity Frederick Lawrence, Jurgen Habermas, Thomas McCarthy
Publisher: Polity Press

Since the 1960s the Frankfurt School has been guided by Jürgen Habermas' (born 1929) work on communicative reason, linguistic intersubjectivity and what Habermas calls “the philosophical discourse of modernity“. Discourse is an activity designed in order to bring ideas down from the proverbial heavens and affect the course of our lives, our destinies, and our polis. Just as Schmitt accomplished this objective through the discussion on theology, Blumenberg did so in the philosophical discourse on modernity. From "The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity". I was doing some copies of Leonardo DaVinci's anatomical studies while reading Jurgen Habermas' “The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity”. The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity: Twelve Lectures. In their attempts to overcome the philosophy of the subject, Hegel and Marx had been ensnared in its own basic concepts. Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. To be captured by Derrida and Habermas in their respective critiques of Foucault (Derrida in the back and forth beginning with Cogito and the History of Madness, Habermas in the Philosophical Discourse on Modernity). Much better to follow Habermas, who in the Philosophical Discourses of Modernity endeavors to engage in conversation with the great thinkers he assays. HABERMAS AND THE UNFINISHED PROJECT OF MODERNITY: CRITICAL ESSAYS ON THE PHILOSOPHICAL DISCOURSE OF MODERNITY. 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). Which has been predominant in the philosophical discourse on virtue.