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CULTURAL HERITAGE AND CONTEMPORARY CHANGE

SERIES I. CULTURE AND VALUES, VOL. 13

 

 

THE EMANCIPATIVE THEORY

 

OF JÜRGEN HABERMAS AND METAPHYSICS

by 

Robert Peter Badillo

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

Acknowledgements

Preface

Introduction

 

CHAPTER I.     The Objectivist/Relativist Dichotomy:The Habermasian Alternative

     Bernstein's Practical Alternative

     Habermas's Theoretical Alternative

     The Metaphysical Alternative

CHAPTER II.     The Theory of the Cognitive Inter­ests:Primacy of the Emancipatory Interest

     Preliminary Issues

     The Theory of Cognitive Interests

     The Primacy of the Emancipatory Interest

CHAPTER III. The Theory of Universal Pragmatics:The Methodological Framework

     Reconstruction of Consensual Speech

     The Discourse Theory of Truth

     Limits of Theoretical Discourse

CHAPTER IV.  The Limits of Discourse Ethics: A Mini­mal Model of Communicating Subjects

     The Nature of Discourse Ethics

     A Model of Communicating Subjects

     Limits of Practical Discourse

CHAPTER V.     Habermas's Philosophy of Emancipa­tion and Metaphysics

     The Christian Hermeneutical Horizon and the Sen­sus Plenior

             of Haber­mas's Philosophy of Emancipation

     An Application of the Methodology of Metaphysics

             to Habermasian Categories

     The Relations Between the Transcendentals, the Emancipa­tory

          Interest, and Ideal Communication

 

Conclusion

Notes 

Selected Bibliography

 

 

 



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