HABERMAS, NIETZSCHE,

AND CRITICAL THEORY

edited by

Babette E. Babich

Fordham University, New York City / Georgetown University, Washington, DC

(Amherst, NY: Humanity Books, 2004)

Babette E. Babich

Habermas, Nietzsche and the Future of Critical Theory: Irrationality, The Will to Power, and War

 

PART 1: Nietzsche and Habermas --- Critcal Theory and the Discourse of Modernity

1. Jürgen Habermas

Postscript from Nietzsches Erkenntnistheoretische Schriften

2. Max Pensky

Truth and Interest: On Habermas’s Postscript to Nietzsche’s Theory of Knowledge

3. Fred Dallmayr

Habermas’s Discourse of Modernity: Nietzsche as “Turntable”

4. Karin Bauer

Nietzsche, Enlightenment, and the Incomplete Project of Modernity

5. Bernhard F. Taureck

Habermas’s Critique of Nietzsche’s Critique of Reason

6. James Swindal

Nietzsche and Habermas and the Critique of Instrumental Reason

7. Tracy B. Strong

Habermas, Nietzsche, and the Politics of Enlighenment

 

PART 2: Truth and Interest --- Genealogy and Redemption

8. Holger Schmid

Enduring the Dialectic of Enlightenment

9. Howard Caygill

The Return of Nietzsche and Marx

10. Josef Früchtl

Radicality and Consequence in Nietzsche’s Theory of Truth: Nietzsche’s Challenge to Adorno and Habermas

11. David Owen

Of Overgrown Children and Last Men: Nietzsche’s Critique and Max Weber’s Cultural Science

12. Alexander Nehamas

Nietzsche, Modernity, Aestheticism

13. Dominique Janicaud

Power and Rationality:  Foucault, Nietzsche, and Habermasian Critique

14. Rebecca Comay

Nietzsche, Benjamin, Heidegger, and the Politics of Memory