Selected Essays: Towards A Transcendental Semiotics

Apel, one of the most important philosophers of postwar Germany, offers a synthesis of the Continental and the analytical philosophies of language via a semiotical transformation of Kantian philosophy. His essays make a major contribution to one of today’s most important philosophical currents–the discourse theory of ethics–and to its underpinning theory of communicative rationality, both of which have previously been primarily associated with Jurgen Habermas.