Historical perspectives -- Metaphysics' forgetfulness of time: on the controversy over Parmenides, frag. 8, 5 / Michael Theunissen -- The origins of the theory of the subject / Dieter Henrich -- Inwardness and the culture of modernity / Charles Taylor
Postenlightenment challenges -- Philosophy and social practice: avoiding the ethnocentric predicament / Thomas McCarthy -- The debate over performative contradiction: Habermas versus the poststructuralists / Martin Jay -- Foucault: critique as a philosophical ethos / Richard J. Bernstein -- The face in the sand: Foucault and the anthropological slumber / Herbert Shnädelbach
Theoretical issues -- Reflections on philosophical method from an analytic point of view / Ernst Tugendhat -- Normatively grounding, "Critical theory" through recourse to the lifeworld? A transcendental-pragmatic attempt to think with Habermas against Habermas / Karl-Otto Apel -- What is a pragmatic theory of meaning? Variations on the proposition "We understand speech act when we know what makes it acceptable." / Albrecht Wellmer -- Art and rationality: on the dialectic of symbolic and allegorical form / Peter Bürger