Knowledge and Human Interests

Preface. Translatora s Note. Part I: The Crisis of the Critique of Knowledge. 1. Hegela s Critique of Kant:. Radicalization or Abolition of the Theory of Knowledge. 2. Marxa s Metacritique of Hegel:. Synthesis Through Social Labour. 3. The Idea of the Theory of Knowledge as Social Theory. Part II: Positivism, Pragmatism, Historicism. 4. Comte and Mach: . The Intention of Early Positivism. 5. Peircea s Logic of Inquiry:. The Dilemma of a Scholastic Realism Restored by the Logic of Language. 6. The Self--Reflection of the Natural Sciences:. The Pragmatist Critique of Meaning. 7. Diltheya s Theory of Understanding Expression:. Ego Identity and Linguistic Communication. 8. The Self--Reflection of the Cultural Sciences:. The Historicist Critique of Meaning. Part III: Critique as the Unity of Knowledge and Interest. 9. Reason and Interest:. Retrospect on Kant and Fichte. 10. Self--Reflection as Science:. Freuda s Psychoanalytic Critique of Meaning. 11. The Scientistic Self--misunderstanding of Meta--psychology: . On the Logic of General Interpretation. 12. Psychoanalysis and Social Theory:. Nieqzschea s Reduction of Cognitive Interests. Appendix. Knowledge and Human Interests: A General Perspective. Jurgen Habermas: A Postscript. Index.