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The Adventures of Transcendental Philosophy

Karl-Otto Apel's Semiotics and Discourse Ethics

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The Adventures of Transcendental Philosophy

Karl-Otto Apel's Semiotics and Discourse Ethics

Description

Karl-Otto Apel is one of the most important German philosophers of the 20th century, and is finally coming to be recognized as such. However, his work is still poorly understood and inadequately treated throughout most of the world. 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. Apel's turn toward pragmatism and analytic philosophy helped him bring the concept of a linguistic paradigm shift to Germany.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Heidegger's Existential Analytic as Epistemology: Kant and Heidegger
Chapter 2 Die Linguistische Wende: Its Sources and Figures
Chapter 3 From Transcendental Hermeneutics to Transcendental Semiotics
Chapter 4 Transcendental or Universal Pragmatics? An Auseinandersetzung between Apel and Habermas
Chapter 5 Discourse Ethics as an Ethics of Responsibility: Toward a Macro-Ethics of Planetary Co-responsibility

Product details

Published Jul 23 2002
Format Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition 1st
Extent 256
ISBN 9780742569430
Imprint Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Series New Critical Theory
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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