The adventures of transcendental philosophy : Karl-Otto Apel's semiotics and discourse ethics / Eduardo Mendieta.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mendieta, Eduardo.

Series:

New critical theory

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Apel, Karl-Otto.

Physical Description:

xxxii, 216 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, [2002]

Summary:

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 J rgen Habermas.

Contents:

Karl-Otto Apel and German Philosophy

Post-World War II German Philosophy and Apel's Place within It

Karl-Otto Apel's Denkweg

1 Heidegger's Existential Analytic as Epistemology: Kant and Heidegger 1

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 Environment

Temporality (Temporalitat) and Temporalizing (Zeitlichkeit)

Time and Being and the Possibility of an Existential Epistemology

2 Die Linguistische Wende: Its Sources and Figures 37

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"

3 From Transcendental Hermeneutics to Transcendental Semiotics 73

World-Disclosure (Welterschliessung) 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

4 Transcendental or Universal Pragmatics? An Auseinandersetzung between Apel and Habermas 103

Knowledge, Reflexion, and Emancipation

On the Theory of Rationality: Reconstructive Science or Transcendental Reflection

On the Architectonics of Discourse Ethics

5 Discourse Ethics as an Ethics of Responsibility: Toward a Macroethics of Planetary Co-Responsibility 141

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 179.

Notes:

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

ISBN:

0742512207

0742512215

OCLC:

48989278