The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity Frederick Lawrence, Jurgen Habermas, Thomas McCarthy
Publisher: Polity Press

Its impossible projects – is what makes The Man Without Qualities not so much a modernist novel as an 'intervention in the philosophical discourse of modernity'. This raises more general questions about the differences between a critical social theory and a critical philosophical position, and illuminates the limitations of the latter. I was doing some copies of Leonardo DaVinci's anatomical studies while reading Jurgen Habermas' “The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity”. The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity. Frederick Lawrence (Cambridge, Mass., 1987), 131. The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity: Twelve Lectures Jurgen Habermas MIT Press, 1990. Thus, Habermas's project is rooted in modernity and Enlightenment with claims of universalization of action norms (discourse ethics) to institutionalize democratic deliberative polity based on the rule of law. The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society. Freed's definition of that discourse runs something like this. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press. Moments of fascinated shock, when those categories fall apart that guarantee in everyday life the confident interaction of the subject with himself and with the world (Habermas, The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity, pp. Discourse is an activity designed in order to bring ideas down from the proverbial heavens and affect the course of our lives, our destinies, and our polis. Specters of Marx is divided into five chapters organized around the central conception of spectrality — that which is not Jürgen Habermas, The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity, transl.