- Civilization, Modern, Modern Civilization, Modern Philosophy, Philosophy
A series of twelve lectures on Modern and Post Modern thinkers ranging from Hegel who critiqued subjective reason and sought to replace it with Absolute Knowledge to Nietsche who proclaimed the death of philosophy and on to thinkers like Habermas who believed that art might possess the capability of uniting our fragmented reasoning ability and finally to post modern thinkers like Bataille, Focault and Derrida
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- Author
- Jürgen Habermas
- First published
- 1987
- Pages
- 430
- Publisher
- Polity Press, Laterza, MIT Press
- Editions
- 12
- Language
- English, Italian, German, und
- ISBN
- 9780745603605
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German sociologist and philosopher in the tradition of critical theory and pragmatism.
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