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Author Dews, Peter.

Title The limits of disenchantment : essays on contemporary European philosophy / Peter Dews
Published London ; New York : Verso, 1995

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Description xi, 300 pages ; 24 cm
Contents Introduction: The Limits of Disenchantment -- 1. Adorno, Poststructuralism and the Critique of Identity -- 2. Foucault and the French Tradition of Historical Epistemology -- 3. The Historicization of Analytical Philosophy -- 4. Nietzsche and the Critique of Ursprungsphilosophie -- 5. Writing in the Lifeworld: Speech-Acts, Metaphor and Deconstruction -- 6. Deconstruction and German Idealism: A Response to Rodolphe Gasche's The Tain of the Mirror -- 7. Lifeworld, Metaphysics and the Ethics of Nature in Habermas -- 8. Modernity, Self-Consciousness and the Scope of Philosophy: Jurgen Habermas and Dieter Henrich in Debate -- 9. Facticity, Validity and the Public Sphere -- 10. Morality, Ethics and 'Postmetaphysical Thinking' -- 11. The Crisis of Oedipal Identity: The Early Lacan and the Frankfurt School -- 12. The Tremor of Reflection: Slavoj Zizek's Lacanian Dialectics -- 13. The Truth of the Subject: Language, Validity and Transcendence in Lacan and Habermas
Analysis Europe
Philosophy
Philosophy, European - 20th century
Philosophy, Modern - 20th century
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 282-295) and index
Subject Philosophy, European -- 20th century.
Philosophy, Modern -- 20th century.
goilosophy, European -- 20th century
LC no. 95036286
ISBN 1859840221 (paperback)
185984927X