附註:Translation of: Der philosophische Diskurs der Moderne.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 386-422) and indexes.
Modernity's consciousness of time and its need for self-assurance -- Hegel's concept of modernity: Excursus on Schiller's "Letters on the aesthetic education of man" -- Three perspectives: Left Hegelians, Right Hegelians, and Nietzsche: Excursus on the obsolescence of the production paradigm -- The entry into postmodernity: Nietzsche as a turning point -- The entwinement of myth and Enlightenment: Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno -- The undermining of Western rationalism through the critique of metaphysics: Martin Heidegger -- Beyond a temporalized philosophy of origins: Jacques Derrida's critique of phonocentrism: Excursus on leveling the genre distinction between philosophy and literature -- Between eroticism and general economics: Georges Bataille -- The critique of reason as an unmasking of the human sciences: Michel Foucault -- Some questions concerning the theory of power: Foucault again -- An alternative way out of the philosophy of the subject: communicative versus subject-centered reason: Excursus on Cornelius Castoriadis: the imaginary institution -- The normative content of modernity: Excursus on Luhmann's appropriations of the philosophy of the subject through systems theory.
