Habermas and aesthetics : the limits of communicative reason

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Author:

Duvenage, Pieter.

ISBN:

9780745631202

9780745615974

Personal Author:

Duvenage, Pieter.

Publication Information:

Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : Polity Press, 2003.

Physical Description:

viii, 209 p. ; 23 cm.

Contents:

1. Habermas and Aesthetics: The First Phase -- 2. Habermas and the Legacy of Aesthetics in Critical Theory -- 3. Habermas and Aesthetics: The Second Phase -- 4. The Second Phase Continues: The Postmodern Challenge -- 5. Critical Perspectives on Habermas's Aesthetics -- 6. The Reciprocity of World Disclosure and Discursive Language.

Abstract:

"This book will interest scholars of Habermas, Critical Theory, aesthetics, German and French philosophy, cultural and media studies, and those interested in modern art and its relation to modernity."--BOOK JACKET.

Personal Subject:

Habermas, Jürgen-Aesthetics.

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In this important new study, Pieter Duvenage shows that Habermas's work on aesthetics, far from being marginal to his core concerns, is central to understanding and evaluating Habermas's entire theoretical enterprise.

This important new study shows that Habermas's work on aesthetics is central to understanding and evaluating his entire theoretical enterprise. Duvenage demonstrates that, in the first phase of his intellectual career, Habermas emphasizes the communicative and societal relevance of art; in the second phase, the idea of a communicative aesthetics is worked out in terms of a theory of rationality. Reveals that Habermas's later work offers a third, albeit undeveloped, alternative that suggests a convergence of the two. Offers a critical perspective on the role of aesthetics in Habermas's work and proposes possible alternatives.