Reason and Its Other
Rationality in Modern German Philosophy and Culture
Published on 9. June 1993
Book
Hardback
298 pages
978-0-85496-372-0 (ISBN)
Description
For centuries debates about reason and its Other have animated and informed philosophy, art, science, and politics throughout Western civilization but nowhere, arguably, as deeply and turbulently as in Germany. This book explores the myriad issues surrounding these debates.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 145 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
519 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-85496-372-0 (9780854963720)
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Content
Introduction - post-rationalism and pluralism in contemporary German thought, D. Freundlich and W. Hudson; the challenge of a totalizing critique of reason and the programme of a philosophical theory of rationality types, K.O. Apel; beyond the radical critique of reason, G. Boehme; two centuries of rationality critique and its "postmodern" radicalization, M. Frank; observations on rationality and language, H. Schandelbach; the institution of a common world and the problem of truth, A. Wellmer; Adorno's reading of Heine, P.U. Hohendahl; unreason and mimesis - the fragmented subject in modernist fiction, M. Stoljar; disenchanting the concept - Irigaray and Adorno, M. Walker; irrationalism, expressionism and the conflict of generations, R. Alter; Enlightenment, the Other(s) of reason and German social democracy, A.G. Bonnell; reconceiving truth, R. Campbell; "Vernunftkritik" as critique of scientistic reason, T. Nuyen; Hebermas's "Philosophical discourse of modernity" and critical cultural history, W. Hudson.