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Informationen zum Autor Jürgen Habermas is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University of Frankfurt and one of the leading philosophers and social and political thinkers in the world today. Klappentext In the final volume of his history of philosophy, Jürgen Habermas offers a series of brilliant interpretations of the thinkers who set the agenda for contemporary philosophy. Beginning with masterful readings of Hume and Kant, he traces the genealogy of their postmetaphysical thinking through the main currents of historicism and German Idealism, and the multifarious reactions to Hegel's influential system, culminating in nuanced readings of Marx, Kierkegaard and Peirce. Through his analysis of their work, Habermas demonstrates the interpretive fecundity of the central themes of his philosophical enterprise - his pragmatist theory of meaning, his communicative theories of subjectivity and sociality, and his discursive theory of normativity in its moral, juridical and political manifestations. In contrast to the bland compendia of thinkers and positions generally presented in surveys of the history of philosophy, Habermas's thematically focused interpretations are destined to provoke controversy and stimulate dialogue. With this work one of the indisputably great thinkers of our time presents a powerful vindication of his conception of philosophy as an inherently discursive - and not merely analytical or speculative - enterprise. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements VIII. AT THE PARTING OF WAYS OF POSTMETAPHYSICAL THINKING: HUME AND KANT 1. Hume's Deconstruction of the Theological Heritage of Practical Philosophy (1) Basic concepts of empiricist theory of knowledge (2) Anthropology of religion and religious scepticism (3) The psychological analysis of natural causality (4) The deconstruction of the basic concepts of practical philosophy 2. The Anthropological Explanation of Law and Morality (1) An emotivist explanation of the virtues (2) The utility of social virtues (3) The problematic transition from attractive values to obligatory norms (4) The deflation of the normative and the denial of the problem of rational law 3. Kant's Answer to Hume: The Practical Meaning of the Transcendental Turn and its Background in the Philosophy of Religion (1) The transcendental ego and the reconstruction of its operations (2) Critique and appropriating translation of the Lutheran Heritage 4. The Postmetaphysical Justification of an Inherent Interest of Reason (1) From theoretical to practical philosophy: concept of autonomy and mode of validity of moral obligation (2) Rational faith and the motivational weakness of rational morality (3) Critique of the doctrine of postulates and the idea of the ethical commonwealth (4) The interest of reason in the cosmopolitan condition (5) Preview of motifs of Kant criticism IX. LINGUISTIC EMBODIMENT OF REASON: FROM SUBJECTIVE TO 'OBJECTIVE' MIND 1. Political, Economic, Cultural and Scientific Impulses for a Paradigm Shift (1) The two constitutional revolutions and the theory of human rights (2) Industrial capitalism and political economy (3) Historical consciousness, history and hermeneutics (4) Herder's appreciation of the individuality of historical phenomena 2. Motives for the Linguistic Turn in Herder, Schleiermacher and Humboldt (1) Herder (2) Schleiermacher (3) Humboldt 3. Hegel's Assimilation of Faith to Knowledge: The Renewal of Metaphysical Thinking after Kant (1) Hegel's critique of Schleiermacher's noncognitivist understanding of religion (2) Beyond metaphysics and Kant to the 'third position of thought' (3) God's incarnation as a model for the self-mediation of the absolute 4. Reason in...
