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This collection of Habermass recent essays on philosophical topics continues the analysis begun in The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity. In a short introductory essay, he outlines the sources of twentieth-century philosophizing, its major themes, and the range of current debates. The remainder of the essays can be seen as his contribution to these debates.Habermass essay on George Herbert Mead is a focal point of the book. In it he sketches a postmetaphysical, intersubjective approach to questions of individuation and subjectivity. In other essays, he develops his distinctive, communications-theoretic approach to questions of meaning and validity. The book as a whole expands on his earlier efforts to define a middle ground between nostalgic revivals of metaphysical conceptions of reason and radical deconstructions of reason. J?rgen Habermas is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Frankfurt.The Essays: The Horizon of Modernity is Shifting. Metaphysics after Kant. Themes in Postmetaphysical Thinking. Toward a Critique of the Theory of Meaning. Peirce and Communication. The Unity of Reason in the Diversity of Its Voices. Individuation through Socialization: On George Herbert Meads Theory of Subjectivity. Philosophy and Science as Literature?
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Jrgen Habermas translated by William Mark Hohengarten
The MIT Press Cambridge, Massachusetts London, England
title
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Postmetaphysical Thinking : Philosophical Essays Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought
author
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Habermas, Jrgen.
publisher
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MIT Press
isbn10 | asin
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0262581302
print isbn13
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9780262581301
ebook isbn13
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9780585281568
language
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English
subject
Philosophy, Modern--20th century, Civilization, Modern--Philosophy.
publication date
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1992
lcc
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B3258.H323N3313 1992eb
ddc
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190
subject
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Philosophy, Modern--20th century, Civilization, Modern--Philosophy.
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Third printing, 1996 First MIT Press paperback edition, 1993
This edition 1992 Massachusetts Institute of Technology This work originally appeared in German under the title Nachmetaphysisches Denken: Philosophische Aufstze, 1988 Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. The author has dropped several of the essays from the German edition and added the essay "Peirce and Communication" for this edition.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Habermas, Jrgen. [Nachmetaphysisches Denken. English] Postmetaphysical thinking / Jrgen Habermas ; translated by William Mark Hohengarten. p. cm. (Studies in contemporary German social thought) Translation of: Nachmetaphysisches Denken. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-262-08209-8 (HB), 0-262-58130-2 (PB) 1. Philosophy, Modern20th century. 2. Civilization, Modern Philosophy. I. Title. II. Series. B3258.H323N3313 1992 190 dc20 91-40800 CIP
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CONTENTS
Translator's Introduction
vii
I A Return to Metaphysics?
1 The Horizon of Modernity Is Shifting
3
2 Metaphysics after Kant
10
3 Themes in Postmetaphysical Thinking
28
II The Turn to Pragmatics
4 Toward a Critique of the Theory of Meaning
57
5 Peirce and Communication
88
III Between Metaphysics and the Critique of Reason
6 The Unity of Reason in the Diversity of Its Voices
115
7 Individuation through Socialization: On George Herbert Mead's Theory of Subjectivity
149
8 Philosophy and Science as Literature?
205
Index
229
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TRANSLATOR'S INTRODUCTION
William Mark Hohengarten
The essays collected in this volume take up and expand upon a line of argument begun by the author in The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity. Like most contemporary thinkers, Habermas is critical of the Western metaphysical tradition and its exaggerated conception of reason. At the same time, however, he cautions against relinquishing that conception altogether. Against the radical critics of Western philosophy he argues that the wholesale rejection of the metaphysical tradition inevitably undercuts the possibility of rational critique itself. He thus defends the view that genuinely postmetaphysical thinking can remain critical only if it preserves the idea of reason derived from the tradition while stripping it of its metaphysical trappings. In order to steer between the twin dangers of a nostalgic return to or a radical critique of metaphysics, we must transform our inherited conceptions of reason and the rational subject. In these essays Habermas contributes to this task by further developing his intersubjectivistic approaches to meaning and validity and, especially, to subjectivity and individuality. In this introduction I shall make a few brief remarks clarifying each of these undertakings.
The linguistic turn in philosophy paved the way for postmetaphysical thinking; yet, in many of its manifestations, the philosophy of language is still wedded to the very metaphysical figures of thought it sought to overcome. For instance, intentionalistic theories of meaning uncritically adopt a conception
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of action drawn from the subject-object model of consciousness, while truth-semantic accounts of meaning uncritically accept the logocentric perspective dominant in the tradition. Even the semiotics of Charles Sanders Peirce remains ensnared by the legacy of metaphysics; for although Peirce insisted that interpretability (or the "interpretant relation") must be a part of the structure of any sign, he also believed that this requirement could be met without taking into account the communicative relationship between a speaker and an interpreting hearer. Ultimately this led Peirce back to metaphysical realism concerning universals. Against this, Habermas argues that the "interpretant relation" cannot be understood independently of the conditions of intersubjective communication oriented toward mutual understanding. In the fourth essay of this volume, "Toward a Critique of the Theory of Meaning," he examines three competing accounts of meaning intentionalism, the use-theory, and truth-semantics with the aim of showing that each of them captures only one of the three functions performed by language when a
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