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

The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity: Twelve Lectures. The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity. This is a general introduction to Habermas' post 1981 magnum opus Theory of Communicative Action social and political philosophy. Scientific reasoning does not sit easily with the presuppositions of any religion, and the work of Enlightenment philosophers made the belief in God appear irrational…It is easy to imagine Mohammed Atta, at Hamburg . Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press. I was doing some copies of Leonardo DaVinci's anatomical studies while reading Jurgen Habermas' “The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity”. Philosophical discourse of modernity when it is suggested in the last chapter that if Foucault's theory(!) is pushed foward, it dialectically result in Habermas. This perspective is precisely part of a discourse of modernity that is established in the 19th century in the wake of the Industrial Revolution and becomes dominant in the USA after the Scopes trial in the 1920s. Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Which has been predominant in the philosophical discourse on virtue. The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society.