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By Axel Honneth
Those eleven essays through famous philosophers and social theorists take in the philosophical features of J?rgen Habermas's unfinished undertaking of reconstructing enlightenment rationality. they vary in subject material from classical difficulties to modern debates, overlaying old views, theoretical concerns, and post-enlightenment demanding situations. A significant other quantity of essays will absorb the cultural and political points of the paintings. jointly, the 2 volumes underscore the richness and diversity of Habermas's project.Contributors: Karl-Otto Apel. Richard J. Bernstein. Peter B?rger. Martin Jay. Thomas McCarthy. Herbert Schn?delbach. Charles Taylor. Michael Theunissen. Ernst Tugendhat. Albrecht Wellmer.
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29. This is especially emphasized by Picht, pp. 215, 235. 30. , Parmenide: Testimonianze e frammenti, trans. with Introduction and Commentary by M. Untersteiner (Florence, 1958), pp. xxvii I. 31. See, among others, Hans-Georg Gadamer, "Retraktationen zum Lehrgedicht des Parmenides," in Varia Variorum: Festgabe für Karl Reinhardt dargebracht von Freunden und Schülern zum 14. Februar 1951 (Münster, 1952), pp. 61 f. 32. 3, 36 38. 33. See J. Whittaker, God Time Being (Oslo, 1971). 34. On Homer's usage, see, for example, The Illiad XII, 25 26: hue d'ara Zeus suneches ("Zeus had it rain without interruption").
Moreover, if in this epoch the idea of a subject acquired the status of a principle, again this does not mean that the role of universal ground (or means of explication) had to accrue to it concomitantly. The latter view results only if one dispenses with more detailed inquiry and understands historical processes in terms of the succession of paradigms. As far as the actual history of subjectivity and its theory are concerned, such a leap [Vorgriff] also ends up directing attention to those modes of thinking that merely represent extreme positions, exceptions in the history of its discovery that actually did isolate the idea of the subject and give it the status of an absolute.
Even these more extreme designs issued from considerations that, at the juncture where they arose, lent plausibility to such lines of thought. 2009 16:35:28] page_36 < previous page page_36 next page > Page 36 overview of that epoch's entire problem condition. There are facts whose position in the constitution of our knowledge is such that they elude our attention for a long time, but when attention finally is concentrated on them, seem to encourage extreme theoretical paths and a kind of theoretical enthusiasm.