Dieter Henrich and Contemporary Philosophy: The Return to Subjectivity

by Freundlieb,Dieter

• ISBN13: 9780754613442
• ISBN10: 0754613445
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781351944267
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-02-28
• Publisher: Routledge
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Summary

Dieter Henrich is one of the most respected and frequently cited philosophers in Germany today. His extensive and highly innovative studies of German Idealism and his systematic analyses of subjectivity have significantly impacted on advanced German philosophical and theological debates. Dieter Henrich and Contemporary Philosophy presents a comprehensive analysis of Henrich's work on subjectivity, evaluating it in the context of contemporary debates in both continental and analytic traditions. Familiarising the non-German reader with an important development in contemporary German philosophy, this book explains the significance of subjectivity for any philosophy that attempts to offer existential orientation and contrasts competing conceptions in analytic philosophy and in the social philosophy of Juergen Habermas. Presenting Henrich's philosophy of subjectivity as a credible alternative to analytic philosophy of mind and a radical challenge to Heideggerian, Habermasian, neo-pragmatist, and postmodern positions, Freundlieb argues that a philosophy of the kind developed by Henrich can regain the cultural significance philosophical thinking once possessed.

Table of Contents

Preface	vi
Dieter Henrich and the Contemporary Philosophical Landscape	1	(32)
The Irreducibility of Subjectivity	33	(37)
Subjectivity, Metaphysics, and Speculative Thinking	70	(55)
The Challenge to Habermas's Curtailment of Reason	125	(41)
Conclusion	166	(6)
References	172	(15)
Select Bibliography of Henrich's Writings	187	(3)
Index	190