Post-Metaphysics

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Zak Stein:

“I am not arguing for a return to premodern forms of metaphysics, which were rightly overthrown by the modern revolutions in scientific methods and epistemology. What follows is 'post-Kantian and 'post-metaphysical in the Habermasian sense; it is what Charles Sanders Peirce and Roy Bhaskar call ‘scientific metaphysics.’ I agree with those who argue that learning and the development of knowledge eventually lead to a ‘return’ to metaphysics at a higher-level. I think a post-postmodern or ‘metamodern’ revival of metaphysics is part of our historical moment” (187)." (http://www.zakstein.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Stein_IR_EROS_Pub.pdf)

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* Book: Postmetaphysical Thinking. by Jürgen Habermas. MIT Press, 1994 [1]

"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."

* Special Issue: Integral Postmetaphysical Spirituality. Ed.by Tom Murray, Bruce Alderman and Layman Pascal. Integral Review, Vol. 15 No. 1 Jan 2019