The Adventures of Transcendental Philosophy

Karl-Otto Apel is one of the most important German philosophers of the 20th century, and is finally coming to be recognized as such. However, his work is still poorly understood and inadequately treated throughout most of the world. In The Adventures of Transcendental Philosophy, critical theory scholar Eduardo Mendieta examines the philosophical origins of discourse ethics through the prism of Apel's thought. Mendieta finds that Apel fundamentally transformed German philosophy, which had become stagnant in the years before World War II, and deeply influenced later thinkers such as Jürgen Habermas. Apel's turn toward pragmatism and analytic philosophy helped him bring the concept of a linguistic paradigm shift to Germany.

Eduardo Mendieta is associate professor of philosophy at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

Acknowledgments	p. vii
Introduction	p. ix
Structure of This Book
Karl-Otto Apel and German Philosophy
Post-World War II German Philosophy and Apel's Place within It
Karl-Otto Apel's Denkweg
Heidegger's Existential Analytic as Epistemology: Kant and Heidegger	p. 1
Introduction
Transcendental Questioning as Key to Dasein's Existentiality
Kant's Copernican Revolution
The Existential Hermeneutic as Being-in-the-World Understanding as a Critique of Finite Reason
Existential Analytic or Philosophical Anthropology: The Question of the Environment
Temporality (Temporalitat) and Temporalizing (Zeitlichkeit)
Time and Being and the Possibility of an Existential Epistemology
Die Linguistische Wende: Its Sources and Figures	p. 37
Introduction
The Idea of Language in Humanism: Toward a Systematic History of the Philosophy of Language
The Hermeneutical Horizon: Contemporary Philosophy of Language
Dante and the Discovery of Mother Tongues
The Humanist Conception of Language
Vico: "The Owl of Minerva of Italian Renaissance Culture"
From Transcendental Hermeneutics to Transcendental Semiotics	p. 73
Introduction
World-Disclosure (Welterschliessung) and Order: Language as a Metainstitution
The Hermeneutical Question of Meaning and the Analytical Question of the Criteria of Meaning: Heidegger and Wittgenstein
The Semiotical Transformation of Transcendental Philosophy
Transcendental Semiotics: A New Paradigm of Prima Philosophia
Transcendental or Universal Pragmatics? An Auseinandersetzung between Apel and Habermas	p. 103
Introduction
Knowledge, Reflexion, and Emancipation
On the Theory of Rationality: Reconstructive Science or Transcendental Reflection
On the Architectonics of Discourse Ethics
Discourse Ethics as an Ethics of Responsibility: Toward a Macroethics of Planetary Co-Responsibility	p. 141
Introduction
Justice as Paralogy: Lyotard
Postmodern Bourgeois Liberalism: Rorty
Beyond the Impasse
Discourse Ethics as a Postmodern Ethics
Eurocentrism, Universalism, and the Challenge of the Poor: Enrique Dussel's Philosophy of Liberation
Comparison and Contrast
The Complementarity of Liberation Ethics and Discourse Ethics
Karl-Otto Apel's Writings	p. 179
General Bibliography	p. 199
Index	p. 213
About the Author	p. 217
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