18a. The Defenders I – Discourse-Ethical Defense (Habermas, Taylor, Apel)

Part VIII: The Defenders Against Postmodernism

  1. Jürgen Habermas: The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity (1985)
  2. Charles Taylor: Sources of the Self (1989)
  3. Karl-Otto Apel: Ultimate Justification through Transcendental Pragmatics
  4. The Systematic Question: Can Reason Be Defended Without Dogmatism?
  5. Outlook: The Theory of Recognition as Synthesis

Structuralism – The Systematic Precondition of Postmodernism (1945-1968) · History of the Reception of Hegel II · The Defenders II – Philological Defense (Hegel Renaissance II)