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First Published in 1980 (English Translation) Towards a
Transformation of Philosophy presents selected essays from Karl
-Otto Apel’s two- volume German collection that was published in
1973 under the title Transformation der Philosophie. Karl -Otto
Apel’s studies in philosophy and the social sciences can be said
to have bridged the gap that had hitherto existed between the
Anglo-Saxon traditions of analytical philosophy of language and
pragmatism, and the philosophical traditions of the European
continent of phenomenology, existentialism, and hermeneutics. Apel
points to language as the crucial dimension in the constitution of
historical meaning and therefore as the historical condition for
the possibility of truth. In this context he discusses the
hermeneutic dimension of Wittgenstein’s philosophy and that of
his followers, together with the development of pragmatism and with
recent trends in Chomsky’s linguistics. In arguing for the
complementarity of technical and practical interests in acquiring
knowledge for a critical theory of society Apel examines the
preconditions for an emancipatory critique of ideology and the
communication community as the predeterminate of both the social
sciences and moral discourse. In all the essays, Apel sets out to
counter the positivistic and scientistic restrictions placed upon a
satisfactory understanding of the preconditions for the possibility
and validity of human knowledge. This is a must read for scholars
and researchers of philosophy.
Le besoin d'une ethique globale a son origine dans la situation
humaine comme telle (l'hominisation nous a en effet eloignes de la
securite naturelle des instincts animaux et nous a jetes dans
l'etat de liberte) et specialement dans la situation presente de
l'humanite. Celle-ci se caracterise par un accroissement extreme
des defis externes a notre co-responsabilite. Ces defis sont poses
par les resultats de la science naturelle, de la technologie, de la
politique et de l'economie tandis que semblent bien marquer les
ressources internes de la raison ethique. Le present livre tente de
montrer que l'approche pragmatico-transcendantale de l'ethique de
la discussion est en mesure de reconstruire la genese de cette
situation et de fournir une reponse rationnelle tant aux defis
externes qu'aux defis internes auxquels une ethique globale est
confrontee. (Peeters 2001)
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