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The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity Frederick Lawrence, Jurgen Habermas, Thomas McCarthy
Publisher: Polity Press

Derrida, Jacques, “The Margins of Philosophy”, University of Chicago Press, Chicago. (1999) The Social Construction of What?” Cmabridge, MA: Harvard University Press. It gave me better ways of thinking about modernity and much else besides. The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity Polity, 1987, Ch 1-4. <>The obvious starting point for the analysis of the Habermas – Derrida debate is Habermas' 1987 book The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity in which one 'lecture' and one 'excurses' deal with Derrida. The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity by Jürgen Habermas. About RVP IVA.26 Contemporary philosophical discourse in Lithuania, Lithuanian Philosophical Studies; IV. (1987) The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity. 'Civil Society' and 'State' from Elements of the Philosophy of Right Cambridge University Press 1991, pp220-358. For short accounts relevant for the present purpose, see Habermas, Jurgen, The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity, translated by Frederick G. Foucault, Michel, “Discipline and Punish”, Vintage Books, New York.