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A series of twelve lectures on Modern and Post Modern thinkers ranging from Hegel who critiqued subjective reason and sought to replace it with Absolute Knowledge to Nietsche who proclaimed the death of philosophy and on to thinkers like Habermas who believed that art might possess the capability of uniting our fragmented reasoning ability and finally to post modern thinkers like Bataille, Focault and Derrida
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The philosophical discourse of modernity: twelve lectures
1990, MIT Press
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The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity
April 26, 1990, Polity Press
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The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity: Twelve Lectures (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought)
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"In his famous introduction to the collection of his studies on the sociology of religion, Max Weber takes up the "problem of universal history" to which his scholarly life was dedicated, namely, the question why, outside Europe, "the scientific, the artistic, the political, or the economic development . . . did not enter upon that path of rationalization which is peculiar to the Occident?""
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