Philosophical Interventions in the Unfinished Project of Enlightenment
Part 1 Historical perspectives: metaphysics' forgetfulness of time - on the controversy over Parmenides, frag. 8,5, Michael Theunissen the origins of the of the subject, Dieter Henrich inwardness and the culture of modernity, Charles Taylor. Part 2 Theoretical issues: reflections on philosophical method from an analytic point of view, Ernst Tugendhat normatively grounding critical theory through recourse to the lifeworld? a transcendental-pragmatic attempt to think with Habermas against Habermas, Karl-Otto Apel what is a pragmatic of meaning? - variations on the proposition Understand a Speech Act when We Know What Makes It Acceptable, Albrecht Wellmer art and rationality - on the dialectic of symbolic and allegorical form, Peter Burger. Part 3 Postenlightenment challenges: philosophy and social practice - avoiding the ethnocentric predicament, Thomas McCarthy the debate over performative contradiction - Habermas versus the Poststructuralists, Martin Jay Foucault - critique as a philosophical ethos, Richard J. Bernstein the face in the sand - Foucault and the anthropological slumber, Herbert Schnadelbach.