"Destined to be the most widely discussed intervention into the increasingly heated controversy over the
apparent transition from modernity to postmodernity, Habermas's latest major effort is certain to raise the level
of the debate several notches."
-- Martin Jay
"These lectures may provide the best entrée into Habermas's thought for non-specialists of any of his
writings."
-- Peter C. Hodgson, Religious Studies Review
Publisher web site, October, 2002.
Summary
"Destined to be the most widely discussed intervention into the increasingly heated controversy over the
apparent transition from modernity to postmodernity, Habermas's lastest major effort is certain to raise the level
of the debate several notches. "
-- Martin Jay
These lectures constitute Jürgen Habermas's response to the challenge posed by the radical critique of
reason in contemporary French poststructuralism. In tracing the historical turnings that led to our current situation,
Habermas tests his ideas about the appropriate form of a postmodern discourse through dialogues with abroad range
of past and present critics and theorists. The lectures on Georges Bataille, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida,
and Cornelius Castoriadis are of particular note, since they are the first fruits ofthe recent cross-fertilization
between French and German thought.
