Habermas's lectures on Nietzsche, Heidegger, Bataille, and Foucault (1984)

Recordings of Jürgen Habermas's five Messenger Lectures at Cornell University in September 1984:

The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity - Hegel and the Young Hegelians
(Lecture I + discussion, September 6, 1984)

See: Jürgen Habermas - The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity (1990), Chapter 1 + 3.

The Entry into Postmodernity - Nietzsche (The Romantic vs. The Dionysian)
(Lecture II + discussion, September 7, 1984)

See: Jürgen Habermas - The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity (1990), Chapter 4. 

Heidegger's Overcoming of Occidental Rationalism 
(Lecture III, September 10, 1984)

See: Jürgen Habermas - The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity (1990), Chapter 6.

Bataille: Between Eroticism and Economy of Nature 
(Lecture IV + discussion, September 11, 1984)

See: Jürgen Habermas - The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity (1990), Chapter 8. 

Foucault's Unmasking of the Human Sciences 
(Lecture V + discussion, September 12, 1984)

See: Jürgen Habermas - The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity (1990), Chapter 9.