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The Bounds of Reason Habermas, Lyotard and Melanie Klein on Rationality
By Emilia Steuerman
Copyright 2000
140 Pages
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Routledge
144 Pages
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Routledge
144 Pages
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Routledge
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The Bounds of Reason: Habermas, Lyotard & Melanie Klein on Rationality is a highly original yet accessible study of the debate between modernity and postmodernity. Emilia Steuerman clearly explains the modernity/postmodernity dispute by examining the problem that has driven the whole debate: whether the use of reason is an emancipatory or enslaving force.
Steuerman clearly sets out this... Read more
1 The critique of reason: Habermas and Lyotard 2 Habermas’s linguistic turn 3 Lyotard’s linguistic turn 4 Freud and Klein 5 The move to ethics: Habermas 6 The move to ethics: Lyotard
Biography
Emilia Steuerman has lectured in philosophy and the social sciences at Brunel University and at the Catholic University of Rio de Janiero (PUC-RJ)
