Dialectic and Narrative by Thomas R. Flynn & Dalia Judovitz

Author:Thomas R. Flynn & Dalia Judovitz [Flynn, Thomas R. & Judovitz, Dalia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: literature, Postmodernism, Philosophy, Modern, Methodology, Literary Criticism, Philosophy; Modern, Semiotics & Theory, History & Surveys, Dialectic
ISBN: 9780791414569
Google: 1DCKR9rHSEcC
Amazon: 0791414566
Publisher: SUNY Press
Published: 1993-06-30T23:00:00+00:00

However, Blumenberg shows a way between the horns of this rationalist/relativist dilemma by providing an analysis of the relation between tradition and critique, human finitude and rationality, which is more complex and convincing than what either Gadamer or Habermas is able to provide, in two crucial ways. First, Blumenberg proposes a type of unifying historical interpretation that can make modernity comprehensible and legitimate (as Habermas, very reasonably, wants to do) but without having recourse to the "nostrocentric" teleology that Habermas (like the great modern philosophers of history) employs for this purpose. In this way, Blumenberg gives an account of the human metaphysical/biological conditiona "philosophical anthropology"that enables us to understand the necessary dialectic of tradition and rational criticism, in human life, in a way that (again) neither Habermas nor Gadamer enables us to do. Thus the rationalist/relativist crux by which thought has been bedeviled since the time of Romanticism appears to be avoidable, after all, if reason can comprehend its own finitude in the way Blumenberg suggests.6

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