General Quote:
" Written by 'the greatest philosopher alive', as many would put it, this volume will be particularly rewarding for specialists in Semantics and Pragmatics in the field of Linguistics and Philosophy of language, but also for those interested in less 'advertised' aspects of the philosophies of Kant, Hegel, and Juergen Habermas himself, among others." (Magda Dumitru, The University at Buffalo, SUNY)The quote is superficial and exaggerating. My students would receive a lower grade for this.
"The volume is a translation of the 1999 edition of "Wahrheit und Rechtfertigung" -- except for chapters 2 and 5, which have been replaced. "Comment: Imprecise.
A central goal of Habermas, the turn away from the philosophies of consciousness:
"The appropriation of hermeneutics and linguistic analysis convinced me then [in the 1960s] that critical social theory had to break free from the conceptual apparatus of the philosophy of consciousness flowing from Kant and Hegel. (LSS, p. xiii; italics mine)" (according to Lafont in The Linguistic Turn in Hermeneutic Philosophy)Problems with Habermas position:
"a global critique of reason, one that radicalizes the detranscendentalization inherent in the linguistic turn to the point of advocating an absolute contextualism. The insurmountability of worldviews inherent in natural languages turns any universalist position into a mere illusion, the illusion of achieving a "God's eye point of view" (as Putnam puts it). It would seem as if the linugistic turn as such lends support to a contextualist position." (Lafont 121)
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