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The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity: Twelve Lectures (German: Der Philosophische Diskurs der Moderne: Zwölf Vorlesungen) is a 1985 book by the philosopher Jürgen Habermas, in which the author reconstructs and deals in depth with a number of philosophical approaches to the critique of modern reason and the Enlightenment "project" since Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and Friedrich ...
Arthur Eddington, Philosophy of Physical Science, 1939; Werner Heisenberg, Physics and Philosophy: The Revolution in Modern Science, 1958; Adolf Grünbaum, Philosophical Problems of Space and Time, 1963/1973; John Stewart Bell, "On the Einstein–Podolsky–Rosen Paradox", 1964; Rudolf Carnap, Philosophical Foundations of Physics, 1966
The Theory of Communicative Action (German: Theorie des kommunikativen Handelns) is a two-volume 1981 book by the philosopher Jürgen Habermas, in which the author continues his project of finding a way to ground "the social sciences in a theory of language", [1] which had been set out in On the Logic of the Social Sciences (1967).
Richard H. Kennington (1921 in Worcester, Massachusetts - September 10, 1999 in Annapolis, Maryland) was an American philosopher and professor of philosophy at Pennsylvania State University and the Catholic University of America. He is known for his research on early modern philosophy and his translation of Descartes' Discourse on the Method.
They originally came in contact when Habermas invited Derrida to speak at The University of Frankfurt in 1984. The next year Habermas published "Beyond a Temporalized Philosophy of Origins: Derrida" in The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity in which he described Derrida's method as being unable to provide a foundation for social critique. [48]
Modernity—based on a paradoxical uncertainty (aporia) of the world but a logical certainty of modern knowledge—gives the modern speaking subject, the knowing subject—all of us—a power so that we can do the impossible. The impossible is that Man replaces God. This replacement, of course, uses not religion but the idea of modern knowledge ...
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In philosophy, deconstruction is a loosely-defined set of approaches to understanding the relationship between text and meaning. The concept of deconstruction was introduced by the philosopher Jacques Derrida , who described it as a turn away from Platonism 's ideas of "true" forms and essences which are valued above appearances.