The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity
Contents
Introduction
Preface
I— Modernity\\u0027s Consciousness of Time and Its Need for Self-Reassurance
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Excursus on Benjamin\\u0027s Theses on the Philosophy of History
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II— Hegel\\u0027s Concept of Modernity
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Excursus on Schiller\\u0027s "Letters on the Aesthetic Education of Man"
III— Three Perspectives: Left Hegelians, Right Hegelians, and Nietzsche
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III— The Continuation of the Hegelian Project in the Philosophy of Praxis
IV— The Neoconservative Response to Praxis Philosophy
Excursus on the Obsolescence of the Production Paradigm
IV— The Entry into Postmodernity: Nietzsche as a Turning Point
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V— The Entwinement of Myth and Enlightenment: Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno
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VI— The Undermining of Western Rationalism through the Critique of Metaphysics: Martin Heidegger
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VII— Beyond a Temporalized Philosophy of Origins: Jacques Derrida\\u0027s Critique of Phonocentrism
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Excursus on Leveling the Genre Distinction between Philosophy and Literature
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VIII— Between Eroticism and General Economics: Georges Bataille
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IX— The Critique of Reason as an Unmasking of the Human Sciences: Michel Foucault
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X— Some Questions Concerning the Theory of Power: Foucault Again
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XI— An Alternative Way Out of the Philosophy of the Subject: Communicative versus Subject-Centered R...
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Excursus on Cornelius Castoriadis: The Imaginary Institution
XII— The Normative Content of Modernity
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Excursus on Luhmann\\u0027s Appropriation of the Philosophy of the Subject through Systems Theory
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Notes
Preface
Lecture I— Modernity\\u0027s Consciousness of Time and Its Need for Self-Reassurance
Lecture II— Hegel\\u0027s Concept of Modernity
Excursus on Schiller\\u0027s "Letters on the Aesthetic Education of Man"
Lecture III— Three Perspectives: Left Hegelians, Right Hegelians, and Nietzsche
Excursus on the Obsolescence of the Production Paradigm
Lecture IV— The Entry into Postmodernity: Nietzsche as a Turning Point
Lecture V— The Entwinement of Myth and Enlightenment: Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno
Lecture VI— The Undermining of Western Rationalism through the Critique of Metaphysics: Martin Heide...
Lecture VII— Beyond a Temporalized Philosophy of Origins: Jacque Derrida\\u0027s Critique of Phonocentrism...
Excursus on Leveling the Genre Distinction between Philosophy and Literature
Lecture VIII— Between Eroticism and General Economics: Georges Bataille
Lecture IX— The Critique of Reason as an Unmasking of the Human Sciences: Michel Foucault
Lecture X— Some Questions Concerning the Theory of Power: Foucault Again
Lecture XI— An Alternative Way out of the Philosophy of the Subject: Communicative versus Subject-Ce...
Excursus on Cornelius Castoriadis: The Imaginary Institution
Lecture XII— The Normative Content of Modernity
Excursus on Luhmann\\u0027s Appropriation of the Philosophy of the Subject through Systems Theory
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