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Christina
Lafont
Associate
Professor
E-mail: clafont@northwestern.edu
Phone: 847-491-8047
Fax: 847-491-7598
Ph.D. University
of Frankfurt. Habilitation, University of Frankfurt. She specializes
in German philosophy, particularly hermeneutics and critical theory.
She has also published in philosophy of language and contemporary ethics.
She is author of The Linguistic Turn in Hermeneutic Philosophy (MIT
Press, 1999) and Heidegger, Language, and World-disclosure (Cambridge
University Press, 2000). She is currently working on Habermas's theory
of communicative rationality and on the realism-antirealism debate.
Books
published :
- Heidegger,
Language and World-Disclosure (Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 2000)
- The
Linguistic Turn in Hermeneutic Philosophy (Cambridge, MA: MIT
Press, 1999)
- Sprache
und Welterschließung. Zur linguistischen Wende der Hermeneutik
Heideggers (Frankfurt: Suhrkamp 1994)
- Spanish
Edition: Lenguaje y apertura del mundo (Madrid: Alianza Ed., 1997)
- La
razón como lenguaje. Un analisis del giro linguístico
en la filosofía del lenguaje alemana (Madrid: Visor, 1993)
Articles
published:
- "Procedural
Justice? Implications of the Rawls-Habermas Debate for Discourse Ethics",
(under review).
- "Continental
philosophy of language" for International Encyclopedia of
Social and Behavioral Sciences, vol.3 Philosophy, Oxford: Elsevier
Science Ltd., forthcoming.
- "Is
Objectivity Perspectival? Reflexions on Brandom's and Habermas's Pragmatist
Conceptions of Objectivity" in M. Aboulafia (ed.) Habermas
and Pragmatism, London: Routledge, forthcoming.
- German
Edition: "Kann Objektivität perspektivistisch sein? Ein
Vergleich der Objektivitätskonzeptionen von Habermas und Brandom"
in K. Günther/ L. Wingert (eds.), Die Öffentlichkeit
der Vernunft und die Vernunft der Öffentlichkeit, Frankfurt:
Suhrkamp, forthcoming.
- "Pluralism
and Universalism in Discourse Ethics" in A. Nascimento (ed.):
A Matter of Discourse: Community and Communication in Contemporary
Philosophies (London: Avebury Press, 1998, pp.55-78)
- Spanish
translation: "Pluralismo y universalismo en la etica discursiva",
Isegoría 17 (1997), pp.37-58.
- "La
teoría de la racionalidad comunicativa de Habermas: Una concepción
discursiva de la aceptabilidad racional", Teoría/Crítica
4 (1997), pp.315-30.
- "Truth,
Knowledge and Reality", Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal,
18/2 (1995), pp.109-126.
Reprinted in Sorites (April 1995), pp.100-114.
- Spanish
translation: "Verdad, saber y realidad", in La filosofía
moral y política de J.Habermas, J.A.Gimbernat, ed., Biblioteca
Nueva, Madrid 1997, pp.239-60.
- "La
tradición humboldtiana y el relativismo linguístico",
together with L.Peña, in Enciclopedia Iberoamericana de
Filosofía, vol.7, El lenguaje, Trotta, Madrid 1999,
pp.191-218.
- "Spannungen
im Wahrheitsbegriff", Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie
42/6 (1994), pp.1007-1023.
- Spanish
translation: "Dilemas en torno a la verdad", Theoria
10/23 (1995), pp.109-124.
- "Referencia
y verdad", Theoria 9/21 (1994), pp.39-60.
- "Welterschliessung
und Referenz", Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie
41/3 (1993), pp.491-507.
- English
translation: "World-disclosure and Reference", Thesis
Eleven 37 (1994), pp.46-63.
- Spanish
translation: "Apertura del mundo y referencia" in Figuras
del logos, C. Thiebaut et al., eds., FCE, Mexico 1994, pp.271-288.
- "Die
Rolle der Sprache in 'Sein und Zeit'", Zeitschrift f. philosophische
Forschung 47/1 (1993), pp.41-59.
- Spanish
translation: "El papel del lenguaje en Ser y Tiempo", Isegoría
7 (1993), pp.183-196
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