SVIJEST O VREMENU MODERNE I NJENA POTREBA ZA SAMOUVJERENJEM
CONSCIOUSNESS OF THE TIME OF MODERNISM AND ITS NEED FOR SELFCONFIDENCE
Author(s): Jürgen HabermasSubject(s): Epistemology, Ethics / Practical Philosophy, Social Philosophy, Early Modern Philosophy, Contemporary Philosophy, German Idealism, Pragmatism, Marxism, Hermeneutics
Published by: Akademija Nauka i Umjetnosti Bosne i Hercegovine
Keywords: Modernism; Philosophical discourse of Modernism; Walter Benjamin; Hegel;
Summary/Abstract: The text represents the first chapter from the book on philosophic discourse of Modernism by Jürgen Habermas. The central figures are Hegel and Benjamin. The author discusses Hegel's discovery of subjectivity as a principle of new times. He explains the superiority of the modern world and its crisis, the world of progress and alienated spirit at the same time. The crucial historic events for establishment of the subjectivity principle are: Reformation, Enlightenment and French Revolution. In Modernism, religious life, nation and society are transformed and so are science, morality and art. The structure of Modernism in philosophy includes abstract subjectivity in Descartes cogito, absolute self-confidence in Kant, who places the mind as the highest tribunal, before which relevance has to be justified.
Journal: Dijalog - Časopis za filozofiju i društvenu teoriju
- Issue Year: 1988
- Issue No: 03+04
- Page Range: 29-44
- Page Count: 16
- Language: Bosnian