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The Persistence of Modernity: Essays on Aesthetics, Ethics, and Postmodernism
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The Persistence of Modernity: Essays on Aesthetics, Ethics, and Postmodernism (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought) Hardcover - 1991

by Wellmer, Albrecht


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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 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.

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  • Title The Persistence of Modernity: Essays on Aesthetics, Ethics, and Postmodernism (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought)
  • Author Wellmer, Albrecht
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First American E
  • Pages 276
  • Publisher The MIT Press, Cambridge
  • Date 1991-05
  • ISBN 9780262231602
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