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The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity Frederick Lawrence, Jurgen Habermas, Thomas McCarthy
Publisher: Polity Press

Its impossible projects – is what makes The Man Without Qualities not so much a modernist novel as an 'intervention in the philosophical discourse of modernity'. The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity: Twelve Lectures Jurgen Habermas MIT Press, 1990. Foucault, "Society Must be Defended", 29-30. Freed's definition of that discourse runs something like this. Jürgen Habermas, The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity: Twelve Lectures, trans. Jürgen Habermas, The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity. Bernstein has an intriguing argument in Recovering Ethical Life in defence of Foucault and Derrida (and presumably other postmodernists) against Habermas' concerns outlined in The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity. Lawrence, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press 1987, 293. This article examines Levinas as if he were a participant in what Habermas has called `the philosophical discourse of modernity'. It begins by comparing Levinas' and Habermas' articulations of the philosophical problems of modernity. To be captured by Derrida and Habermas in their respective critiques of Foucault (Derrida in the back and forth beginning with Cogito and the History of Madness, Habermas in the Philosophical Discourse on Modernity). Theodor Ludwig Wiesengrund Adorno (September 11, 1903 – August 6, 1969) was a German philosopher who wrote widely in the areas of sociology, social psychology, aesthetics, musicology, and literary criticism. Discourse is an activity designed in order to bring ideas down from the proverbial heavens and affect the course of our lives, our destinies, and our polis.