The Persistence of Modernity: Essays on Aesthetics, Ethics, and Postmodernism
by Albrecht Wellmer
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The Persistence of Modernity presents four essays, drawn from works by one of Germany's foremost philosophers, that go to the heart of a number of contemporary issues: Adorno's aesthetics, the nature of a postmodern ethics, and the persistence of modernity in the so-called postmodern age.Albrecht Wellmer defends the general thesis that modernity contains its own critique and that what has been called postmodernism is in fact a further articulation of that critique. More specifically, his show more essays offer a reinterpretation of Adorno's aesthetics in the framework of a postutopian philosophy of communicative reason, an analysis of the postmodern critique of instrumental reason and its subject that becomes an argument for democratic pluralism and universalism, a discussion of the dialectics of modernism and postmodernism in the context of architecture and industrial design, and a dialogical ethics that is inspired by and yet takes issue with Habermas's discourse ethics. show lessTags
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- 190.9 — Philosophy & psychology Modern western philosophy Modern western and other noneastern philosophy Biography; Enlightenment - History By Place
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- BH151 .W44213 — Philosophy, Psychology and Religion Aesthetics Aesthetics History
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