Jürgen Habermas and the Postmetaphysical Fate of the Discourse on Faith and Knowledge: A Review Essay
This is the third and final volume of an admirably readable translation by Ciaran Cronin of a history of philosophy originally published in German in two volumes in 2019, the year of Habermas’s 90 th birthday.1 The entire work is a monumental capstone to the prolific career of one of the most recognizable public intellectu-als of the Federal Republic of Germany since its inception. It is staggering in the breadth of its engagement with a diverse range of theoretical interlocutors. To that extent it is representative of the “productive eclecticism” whereby Habermas sought throughout his career to augment his own theoretical position through the selective appropriation of insights acquired through such engagement.2 It is also an eloquent vindication of the interests of practical reason and a timely plaidoyer, at a crucial historical turning point, for a conception of philosophy that “accords