Postmetafizičko mišljenje
Postmetaphysical Thinking

Philosophical Essays

Author(s): Jürgen Habermas
Contributor(s): Aleksandra Kostić (Translator)
Subject(s): Philosophy, Metaphysics, Epistemology, Semiology, Social Philosophy, Contemporary Philosophy, Pragmatism, Analytic Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Language, Phenomenology, Hermeneutics
Published by: Beogradski krug
Keywords: communicative action; assertoric sentences; communication; forms of life; intersubjectivity; lifeworld; speech acts; postmetaphysical thinking; semiotics; reason; pragmatism; meaning
Summary/Abstract: In this collection of essays, Habermas takes up and pursues the line of analysis begun in The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity. He begins by outlining the sources and central themes of twentieth century philosophy, and the range of current debates. He then examines a number of key contributions to these debates, from the pragmatic philosophies of Mead, Peirce and Rorty to the poststructuralism of Foucault. Like most contemporary thinkers, Habermas is critical of the Western metaphysical tradition and its exaggerated conception of reason. In opposition to the radical critics of Western philosophy, Habermas argues that postmetaphysical thinking can remain critical only if it preserves the idea of reason while stripping it of its metaphysical trappings.

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