Modernity’s need for self-justification arises from the collapse of traditional norms

Evidence

Habermas argues that the triple response to modernity outlined above originates in the collapse of Hegel’s system. For it was Hegel who ‘inaugurated the discourse of modernity’, whose theme is ‘the self-critical reassurance of modernity’. Hegel grasped the distinctive problem of modernity, its need for self-justification, given the collapse of traditional norms and models consequent on the seventeenthcentury revolution (see section 2.1 above). — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism, 264

Habermas argues that the triple response to modernity outlined above originates in the collapse of Hegel’s system. For it was Hegel who ‘inaugurated the discourse of modernity’, whose theme is ‘the self-critical reassurance of modernity’. Hegel grasped the distinctive problem of modernity, its need for self-justification, given the collapse of traditional norms and models consequent on the seventeenthcentury revolution (see section 2. — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism, 264

Categorization

• corroborated: 3 independent passages support this claim — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism: A Marxist…, 264
• XREF: connects to: Mass culture’s commercial self-justification is a subterfuge that evades responsibility for falsity; Classical social theory defined modernity by the application of scientific rationality over tradition — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism: A Marxist…, 151; Hegel solved modernity’s self-justification problem too completely through Absolute reason — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism: A Marxist…, 264 (+4 more)