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Critique of Rationality: Judgement and Creativity from Benjamin to Merleau-Ponty
Contributor(s): O'Brien (Author)

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 ISBN: 9004272739     ISBN-13: 9789004272736
Publisher: Brill
OUR PRICE: $166.25  

Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: September 2016
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BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Sociology - General
- Philosophy | Aesthetics
- Philosophy | Epistemology
Series: Studies in Critical Social Sciences
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.2" W x 9.3" L (1.25 lbs) 320 pages
Features: Bibliography
 
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In his Critique of Rationality, John Eustice O'Brien proposes a fascinating rectification for the distortion of technical necessity in Western Society due to unbridled instrumental reason. He begins with a review of this issue first raised by the Early German Romantics as discussed by Isaiah Berlin and Walter Benjamin. Following French social philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty's radically different apperceptive epistemology, he explores the possibility of a social world in which each is anchored by a pr objective disposition to meaning based on the intersubjective presence of all. This justifies the postulate of aesthetic-consciousness as the site of socialization in communities of meaning, as a frame for judgment and creativity. The struggle must continue for awakening that consciousness if an open society is to be realized.
 
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