The Adventures of Transcendental Philosophy

Eduardo Mendieta

doi:10.5771/9780742569430

Summary

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.

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Bibliographic data

Copyright year: 2002
ISBN-Print: 978-0-7425-1220-7
ISBN-Online: 978-0-7425-6943-0
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 217
Product type: Book Titles

1. Table of Contents No access
2. Acknowledgments No access
3. 1. Structure of This Book No access
  2. Karl-Otto Apel and German Philosophy No access
  3. Post-World War II German Philosophy and Apel's Place within It No access
  4. Karl-Otto Apel's Denkweg No access
1. Introduction No access
2. Transcendental Questioning as Key to Dasein's Existentiality No access
3. Kant's Copernican Revolution No access
4. The Existential Hermeneutic as Being-in-the-World Understanding as a Critique of Finite Reason No access
5. Existential Analytic or Philosophical Anthropology: The Question of The Environment No access
6. Temporality (Temporalität) and Temporalizing (Zeitlichkeit) No access
7. Time and Being and The Possibility of an Existential Epistemology No access
1. Introduction No access
2. The Idea of Language in Humanism: Toward a Systematic History of the Philosophy of Language No access
3. The Hermeneutical Horizon: Contemporary Philosophy of Language No access
4. Dante and The Discovery of Mother Tongues No access
5. The Humanist Conception of Language No access
6. Vico: "The Owl of Minerva of Italian Renaissance Culture" No access
1. Introduction No access
2. World-Disclosure (Welterscblieβung) and Order: Language as a Metainstitution No access
3. The Hermeneutical Question of Meaning and the Analytical Question of the Criteria of Meaning: Heidegger and Wittgenstein No access
4. The Semiotical Transformation of Transcendental Philosophy No access
5. Transcendental Semiotics: A New Paradigm of Prima Philosophia No access
1. Introduction No access
2. Knowledge, Reflexion, and Emancipation No access
3. On the Theory of Rationality: Reconstructive Science or Transcendental Reflection No access
4. On the Architectonics of Discourse Ethics No access
1. Introduction No access
2. Justice as Paralogy: Lyotard No access
3. Postmodern Bourgeois Liberalism: Rorty No access
4. Beyond the Impasse No access
5. Discourse Ethics as a Postmodern Ethics No access
6. Eurocentrism, Universalism, and The Challenge of The Poor: Enrique Dussel's Philosophy of Liberation No access
7. Comparison and Contrast No access
8. The Complementarity of Liberation Ethics and Discourse Ethics No access
Karl-Otto Apel's Writings No access Pages 179 - 198
General Bibliography No access Pages 199 - 212
Index No access Pages 213 - 216
About the Author No access Pages 217 - 217