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Habermas and Aesthetics: The Limits of Communicative Reason

Habermas and Aesthetics: The Limits of Communicative Reason

Paperback

PhilosophyArt Criticism & Theory

ISBN10: 0745631207
ISBN13: 9780745631202
Publisher: Polity Pr
Published: Aug 29 2003
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.66 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.14
Language: English

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.

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