This collection of Habermas's recent essays on philosophical topics                  continues the analysis begun in The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity. In a short                  introductory essay, he outlines the sources of twentieth-century philosophizing, its                  major themes, and the range of current debates. The remainder of the essays can be                  seen as his contribution to these debates.Habermas's essay on George Herbert Mead is                  a focal point of the book. In it he sketches a postmetaphysical, intersubjective                  approach to questions of individuation and subjectivity. In other essays, he                  develops his distinctive, communications-theoretic approach to questions of meaning                  and validity. The book as a whole expands on his earlier efforts to define a middle                  ground between nostalgic revivals of metaphysical conceptions of reason and radical                  deconstructions of reason. J?rgen Habermas is Professor of Philosophy at the                  University of Frankfurt.The Essays: The Horizon of Modernity is Shifting.                  Metaphysics after Kant. Themes in Postmetaphysical Thinking. Toward a Critique of                  the Theory of Meaning. Peirce and Communication. The Unity of Reason in the                  Diversity of Its Voices. Individuation through Socialization: On George Herbert                  Mead's Theory of Subjectivity. Philosophy and Science as Literature?

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