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Habermas describes Knowledge and Human Interests as an
attempt to reconstruct the prehistory of modern positivism with the
intention of analysing the connections between knowledge and human
interests. Convinced of the increasing historical and social
importance of the natural and behavioural sciences, Habermas makes
clear how crucial it is to understand the central meanings and
justifications of these sciences. He argues that for too long the
relationship between philosophy and science has been distorted.
In this extraordinarily wide-ranging book, Habermas examines the
principal positions of modern philosophy - Kantianism, Marxism,
positivism, pragmatism, hermeneutics, the philosophy of science,
linguistic philosophy and phenomenology - to lay bare the structure
of the processes of enquiry that determine the meaning and the
validity of all our statements which claim objectivity.
This edition contains a postscript written by Habermas for the
second German edition of Knowledge and Human Interests.
Auteur
Jürgen Habermas is a German philosopher and sociologist in the tradition of critical theory and pragmatism. He is perhaps best known for his theories on communicative rationality and the public sphere. In 2014, Prospect readers chose Habermas as one of their favourites among the "world's leading thinkers".
Résumé
Habermas describes Knowledge and Human Interests as an attempt to reconstruct the prehistory of modern positivism with the intention of analysing the connections between knowledge and human interests. Convinced of the increasing historical and social importance of the natural and behavioural sciences, Habermas makes clear how crucial it is to understand the central meanings and justifications of these sciences. He argues that for too long the relationship between philosophy and science has been distorted. In this extraordinarily wide-ranging book, Habermas examines the principal positions of modern philosophy - Kantianism, Marxism, positivism, pragmatism, hermeneutics, the philosophy of science, linguistic philosophy and phenomenology - to lay bare the structure of the processes of enquiry that determine the meaning and the validity of all our statements which claim objectivity.
This edition contains a postscript written by Habermas for the second German edition of Knowledge and Human Interests.
Contenu
Preface.
Translator's Note.
Part I: The Crisis of the Critique of Knowledge.
Radicalization or Abolition of the Theory of Knowledge.
Synthesis Through Social Labour.
Part II: Positivism, Pragmatism, Historicism.
The Intention of Early Positivism.
The Dilemma of a Scholastic Realism Restored by the Logic of
Language.
The Pragmatist Critique of Meaning.
Ego Identity and Linguistic Communication.
The Historicist Critique of Meaning.
Part III: Critique as the Unity of Knowledge and
Interest.
Retrospect on Kant and Fichte.
Freud's Psychoanalytic Critique of Meaning.
On the Logic of General Interpretation.
Nieqzsche's Reduction of Cognitive Interests.
Appendix.
Knowledge and Human Interests: A General Perspective.
Jurgen Habermas: A Postscript.
Index.