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Title: HABERMAS AND THE UNFINISHED PROJECT OF MODERNITY Critical Essays on the Philosophical Discourse of Modernity
Publisher: The MIT Press
Publication Date: 1997
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0262041561
ISBN 13: 9780262041560
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: VG+

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This collection of ten essays offers the first systematic assessment of J�rgen Habermas's Philosophical Discourse of Modernity, a book that defended the rational potential of the modern age against the depiction of modernity as a spent epoch. The essays (of which four are newly commissioned, five were published in the journal Praxis International, and one―by Habermas―first appeared in translation in New Critique) are divided into two Critical Rejoinders and Thematic Reformulations. An opening essay by d'Entr�ves sets out the main issues and orients the debate between Habermas and the postmodernists by identifying two different senses of a responsibility to act versus a responsibility to otherness (an openness to difference, dissonance, and ambiguity). These are linked with two alternative understandings of the primary function of action-orienting versus world-disclosing. This is a fruitful way of looking at the issues that Habermas has raised in his attempt to resurrect and complete the project of Enlightenment. Habermas's essay discusses the main themes of his book in the context of a critical engagement with neoconservative cultural and political trends. The main body of essays offer an interesting collection of points of view, for and against Habermas's position by philosophers, social scientists, intellectual historians, and literary critics.Sections and ContributorsIntroduction, Maurizio Passerin d'Entr�ves Modernity versus Postmodernity, J�rgen Habermas Critical Fred Dallmayr, Christopher Norris. David C. Hoy. James Schmidt. Joel Whitebook Thematic James Bohman, Diana Coole. Jay M. Bernstein. David Ingram.

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Seyla Benhabib is Eugene Meyer Professor of Political Science and Philosophy at Yale University and author of The Claims of Culture: Equality and Diversity in the Global Era and other books.

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