The philosophical discourse of modernity

Author's name: Jürgen Habermas Publisher: Al-Hewar for Publishing and Distribution Year of publication: 2019 Literary classification: Philosophy and Thought About the book: This book, with its various topics and the depth with which it addresses its materials, is considered a philosophical phenomenon in its own right, aiming for comprehensiveness and accuracy. It critically confronts Western philosophical heritage from the Enlightenment era to the present day. It appears from the title, which takes modernity—according to Habermas—as a project that is incomplete—as its starting point. He did not hesitate to criticize it whenever he had the opportunity, leading to a critique of self-centered reason. It was natural for the book to begin with Hegel, who is the first thinker of modernity, with his two concepts of reason and subjectivity, without ending solely with Heidegger, who sought to demolish Western metaphysics to escape the prison of modernity, which tried to erase the German spirit in its original authenticity. Jürgen Habermas, the author of the book, is considered one of the most important German philosophers still alive and one of the pillars of the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory alongside Horkheimer and Adorno. This is the fourth book by Habermas presented to the Arab reader by translator Hassan Saqr.