Overview

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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Author:   Wayne Hudson (Charles Sturt University, Australia) ,  Dieter Freundlieb
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Berg Publishers
Volume:   v. 4
Dimensions:   Width: 14.40cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.00cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9780854963720

ISBN 10:   0854963723
Pages:   298
Publication Date:   09 June 1993
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

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.

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