The Derrida - Habermas Reader / / Lasse Thomassen.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Thomassen, Lasse,
• MitwirkendeR: Benhabib, Seyla,; Bernstein, Richard J.,; Critchley, Simon,; De Cauter, Lieven,; Derrida, Jacques,; Habermas, Jürgen,; Honig, Bonnie,; Matuštík, Martin Beck,; Morris, Martin,; Rorty, Richard,; Thomassen, Lasse,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2006
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (336 p.)

The first book to consider the debate between two of the most prominent philosophers and social theorists of the 20th century: Jacques Derrida and Jürgen HabermasThis book presents a unique collection of articles by the two figures and by those who have written about them, and includes pieces published in English for the first time.The book will be of interest to students and scholars with an interest in the implications of Derrida's deconstruction and Habermas's critical theory for issues such as international relations, Europe, tolerance, rights, multiculturalism and identity politics, and the nature of philosophy.Including an introduction to the differences and affinities between Derrida's and Habermas's works, introductions to each text, suggestions for further reading, and a bibliography, this book is the ideal starting point for students and scholars wishing to understand the relationship between these two great thinkers.Key Features:Unique - the first Reader to consider the Habermas-Derrida debateFeatures pieces by Habermas and Derrida published in English for the first timeIncludes primary and secondary textsProvides introductions to the debate and to each text, and suggestions for further reading

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- INTRODUCTION: BETWEEN DECONSTRUCTION AND RATIONAL RECONSTRUCTION -- PART I PHILOSOPHY AND LITERATURE -- INTRODUCTION -- 1 LEVELING THE GENRE DISTINCTION BETWEEN PHILOSOPHY AND LITERATURE -- 2 IS THERE A PHILOSOPHICAL LANGUAGE? -- 3 HABERMAS, DERRIDA AND THE FUNCTIONS OF PHILOSOPHY -- PART II ETHICS AND POLITICS -- INTRODUCTION -- 4 AN ALLEGORY OF MODERNITY/POSTMODERNITY: HABERMAS AND DERRIDA -- 5 FRANKFURT IMPROMPTU – REMARKS ON DERRIDA AND HABERMAS -- 6 PERFORMATIVE POWERLESSNESS – A RESPONSE TO SIMON CRITCHLEY -- 7 HOW TO RESPOND TO THE ETHICAL QUESTION -- 8 DEMOCRACY AND DIFFERENCE: REFLECTIONS ON THE METAPOLITICS OF LYOTARD AND DERRIDA -- PART III IDENTITY/DIFFERENCE: RIGHTS, TOLERANCE AND POLITICAL SPACE -- INTRODUCTION -- 9 DEAD RIGHTS, LIVE FUTURES: ON HABERMAS’S ATTEMPT TO RECONCILE CONSTITUTIONALISM AND DEMOCRACY -- 10‘A BIZARRE, EVEN OPAQUE PRACTICE’: HABERMAS ON CONSTITUTIONALISM AND DEMOCRAC -- 11 RELIGIOUS TOLERANCE – THE PACEMAKER FOR CULTURAL RIGHTS -- 12 HOSTIPITALITY -- 13 BETWEEN DELIBERATION AND DECONSTRUCTION: THE CONDITION OF POST-NATIONAL DEMOCRACY -- PART IV BEYOND THE NATION-STATE: EUROPE, COSMOPOLITANISM AND INTERNATIONAL LAW -- INTRODUCTION -- 14 FOR A JUSTICE TO COME: AN INTERVIEW WITH JACQUES DERRIDA -- 15 FEBRUARY 15, OR WHAT BINDS EUROPEANS TOGETHER: A PLEA FOR A COMMON FOREIGN POLICY, BEGINNING IN THE CORE OF EUROPE -- 16 BETWEEN HOPE AND TERROR: HABERMAS AND DERRIDA PLEAD FOR THE IM/POSSIBLE -- AFTERWORDS -- INTRODUCTION -- 17 HONESTY OF THOUGHT -- 18 A LAST FAREWELL: DERRIDA’S ENLIGHTENING IMPACT -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- COPYRIGHT ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- NOTES ON THE CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX