Between Freiburg and Frankfurt : toward a critical ontology
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Between Freiburg and Frankfurt : toward a critical ontology
University of Massachusetts Press, 1991
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Life-world, modernity and critique : paths between Heidegger and the Frankfurt school
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British ed. published under title: Life-world, modernity and critique : paths between Heidegger and the Frankfurt school
Includes bibliographical references and index
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In an age marked by profound rifts and tensions on both political and philosophical levels, a fundamental debate affecting virtually the whole of Western intellectual culture is currently taking place. In one camp are those who would defend traditional metaphysics and its ties to the rise of modernity; in the other camp, those who reject the possibility of foundational thought and argue for the emergence of a postmodern order. Can we still defend the notion of critical reason? How should we grasp the significance of the embeddedness of language and thought in specific historical contexts? Can we rationally defend the possibility of human freedom?
In this book, Fred Dallmayr goes beyond conventional discussion of these issues by tracing them back to their origins. Drawing on his unrivaled knowledge of Continental philosophy, he explores the underlying connections between the phenomenologists of the Freiburg School and the critical theorists of the Frankfurt School, thus steering a course toward a "critical ontology" that bridges reason and the world.
This book will be essential reading for sociologists, philosophers, and political theorists.
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