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Record Nr.

UNINA9910779324003321

Autore

Mendieta Eduardo

Titolo

The adventures of transcendental philosophy [[electronic resource] ] : Karl-Otto Apel's semiotics and discourse ethics / / Eduardo Mendieta

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Md., : Rowman & Littlefield Pub., c2002

ISBN

0-7425-6943-8

1-299-13536-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (250 p.)

Collana

New critical theory

Disciplina

193

Soggetti

Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-211) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Structure of This Book; Karl-Otto Apel and German Philosophy; Post-World War II German Philosophy and Apel's Place within It; Karl-Otto Apel's Denkweg; Chapter 1. Heidegger's Existential Analytic as Epistemology: Kant and Heidegger; Introduction; Transcendental Questioning as Key to Dasein's Existentiality; Kant's Copernican Revolution; The Existential Hermeneutic as Being-in-the-World Understanding as a Critique of Finite Reason

Existential Analytic or Philosophical Anthropology: The Question of The EnvironmentTemporality (Temporalität) and Temporalizing (Zeitlichkeit); Time and Being and The Possibility of an Existential Epistemology; Chapter 2. Die Linguistische Wende: Its Sources and Figures; Introduction; The Idea of Language in Humanism: Toward a Systematic History of the Philosophy of Language; The Hermeneutical Horizon: Contemporary Philosophy of Language; Dante and The Discovery of Mother Tongues; The Humanist Conception of Language; Vico: ""The Owl of Minerva of Italian Renaissance Culture""

Chapter 3. From Transcendental Hermeneutics to Transcendental SemioticsIntroduction; World-Disclosure (Welterscblieβung) and Order: Language as a Metainstitution; The Hermeneutical Question of Meaning and the Analytical Question of the Criteria of Meaning: Heidegger and Wittgenstein; The Semiotical Transformation of Transcendental Philosophy; Transcendental Semiotics: A New Paradigm of Prima



Philosophia; Chapter 4. Transcendental or Universal Pragmatics? An Auseinandersetzung Between Apel and Habermas; Introduction; Knowledge, Reflexion, and Emancipation

On the Theory of Rationality: Reconstructive Science or Transcendental ReflectionOn the Architectonics of Discourse Ethics; Chapter 5. Discourse Ethics as an Ethics of Responsibility: Toward a Macroethics of Planetary Co-Responsibility; Introduction; Justice as Paralogy: Lyotard; Postmodern Bourgeois Liberalism: Rorty; Beyond the Impasse; Discourse Ethics as a Postmodern Ethics; Eurocentrism, Universalism, and The Challenge of The Poor: Enrique Dussel's Philosophy of Liberation; Comparison and Contrast; The Complementarity of Liberation Ethics and Discourse Ethics; Karl-Otto Apel's Writings

General BibliographyIndex; About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

In The Adventures of Transcendental Philosophy, critical theory scholar Eduardo Mendieta examines the philosophical origins of discourse ethics through the prism of Apel's thought. Mendieta finds that Apel fundamentally transformed German philosophy, which had become stagnant in the years before World War II, and deeply influenced later thinkers such as JYrgen Habermas.