Knowledge and Human Interests _Jurgen Habermas

Jürgen Habermas

Knowledge and Human Interests

Beacon Press (1972)

Format PDF  9.08

Pages 357

Preface vii

Translator's Note ix

PART ONE The Crisis of the Critique of Knowledge 1

1 Hegel's Critique of Kant:

Radicalization or Abolition of the Theory of Knowledge 7

2 Marx's Metacritique of Hegel:

Synthesis Through Social Labor 25

3 The Idea of the Theory of Knowledge as Social Theory 43

PART TWO Positivism, Pragmatism, Historicism 65

4 Comte and Mach: The Intention of Early Positivism 71

5 Peirce's Logic of Inquiry:

The Dilemma of a Scholastic Realism Restored by the Logic of Language 91

6 The Self-Reflection of the Natural Sciences:

The Pragmarist Critique of Meaning 113

7 Dilthey's Theory of Understanding Expression:

Ego Identity and Linguistic Communication 140

8 The Self-Reflection of the Cultural Sciences:

The Historicist Critique of Meaning 161

PART THREE Critique as the Unity of Knowledge and Interest 187

9 Reason and Interest: Retrospect on Kant and Fichte 191

10 Self-Reflection as Science:

Freud's Psychoanalytic Critique of Meaning 214

11 The Scientistic Self-misunderstanding of Metapsychology:

On the Logic of General Interpretation 246

12 Psychoanalysis and Social Theory.

Nietzsche's Reduction of Cognitive Interests 274

Appendix

Knowledge and Human Interests:

A Genera] Perspective 301

Index 351