Philosophical discourse of modernity (Trans. from German bu V. Kuplin): Kyiv, Chetverta Khvylia [The Fourth Wave], 2001, 424 p.

In his work, Habermas polemicises with French neo-structuralism, which would later become part of the postmodern philosophical tradition. The initial problem of the work is caused by the neo-structuralist critique of reason. Against the background of this criticism, the author tries to reconstruct the philosophical discourse of Modernity. The author considers Modernity to be an unfinished project.

CONTENTS

A foreword from the translator

Preface

Lecture I Time consciousness in modernism and the need for its self-certification

Lecture II Hegel's concept of the Modern

Lecture ІІІ Three perspectives: Left Hegelians, Right Hegelians and Nietzsche

Lecture IV Introduction to postmodernism

Lecture V Interweaving of Myth and Enlightenment. M. Horkheimer and T. Adorno.

Lecture VI Undermining Western rationalism through the critique of metaphysics: Heidegger

Lecture VII The advantage of the temporalized "First Philosophy": Jacques Derrida and his critique of phonocentrism

To Lecture VII Excursion to the problem of leveling the genre difference between philosophy and literature

Lecture VIII Between eroticism and general economy: Georges Bataille

Lecture IX Critique of reason as a revelation of the humanities: Michel Foucault

Lecture X Aporia of the theory of power

Lecture XI Another way from the philosophy of the subject: an alternative to the communicative and subject-centered mind

To Lecture XI Excursion to "imaginary institutionalization" by Cornelius Castoriadis

Lecture XII Normative content of Modern

To Lecture XII Excursion into the inheritance of the philosophy of the subject by Luhmann's theory of systems

Translation and explanation of the most important terms and expressions

Notes

Name index