From a Transcendental-Semiotic Point of View

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by Karl-Otto Apel,

Edited by Marianna Papastephanou

Manchester University Press

Due/Published February 1999, 224 pages, paper

ISBN 0719055385

Collected here for the first time, Apel's essays are concerned with post-analytic philosophy, epistemology, history of science, Heidegger's fundamental ontology, current debates about transcendental modes of arguement, second-generation Frankfurt School thinkers and American pragmatists.

ContentsIntroduction
Agencies Human and Divene: Fire in French Cities
Transcendental Semiotics and the Paradidms of First Philosophy
Transcendental Semiotics and Truth: The Relevance of a Peircean Consensus Theory of Truth
Can an Ultimate Foundation of Knowledge me Non-Metaphysical?
Meaning--Constitution and Justification of Validity: Has Heidegger Overcome Transcendental Philosophy by History of Being?
Wittgenstein and Heidegger: Language Games and LIfe-Forms
Regulative Ideas or Truth Happening
An Attempt to Answer the Question of the Conditions of the Possibility of Valid Understanding
History of Science as a Problem of Hermeneutics: An Argument with Karl Popper's Third World Hermenuetics
The Self-Recuperation Principle of Critical Hermeneutic Reconstruction of History