The Limits of Disenchantment: Essays on Contemporary European Philosophy

Introduction: The Limits of Disenchantment......Page 2
PART I: CROSS-CURRENTS......Page 18
1. Adorno, Postructuralism, and the Critique of Identity......Page 19
2. Foucault and the French Tradition of Historical Epistemology......Page 39
3. The Historicization of Analytical Philosophy......Page 59
PART II: DECONSTRUCTION......Page 77
4. Nietzsche and the Critique of Ursprungphilosophie......Page 78
5. Writing in the Lifeworld: Speech-Acts, Metaphor, and Deconstruction......Page 89
6. Deconstruction and German Idealism: A Response to Rodolphe Gasche\'s The Tain of the Mirror......Page 114
PART III: CRITICAL THEORY......Page 148
7. Lifeworld, Metaphysics, and the Ethics of Nature in Habermas......Page 149
8. Modernity, Self-Consciousness, and the Scope of Philosophy: Jurgen Habermas and Dieter Henrich in Debate......Page 167
9. Facticity, Validity, and the Public Sphere......Page 192
10. Morality, Ethics, and \'Postmetaphysical Thinking\'......Page 200
11. The Crisis of Oedipal Identity: The Early Lacan and the Frankfurt School......Page 211
12. The Tremor of Reflection: Slavoj Zizek\'s Lacanian Dialectics......Page 232
13. The Truth of the Subject: Language, Validity, and Transcendence in Lacan and Habermas......Page 255
Sources and Acknowledgements......Page 276
Bibliography......Page 278
Index......Page 292