Consequences of Enlightenment

Klappentext Leading critic explores the link between politics, philosophy and aesthetics in a range of important thinkers. Zusammenfassung What is the relationship between contemporary intellectual culture and the European Enlightenment? In Consequences of Enlightenment! Anthony Cascardi argues that postmodern culture does not reject Enlightenment beliefs and explores the link between aesthetics and politics in thinkers as diverse as Habermas! Derrida! Arendt! Nietzsche! Hegel and Wittgenstein. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements; 1. The consequences of enlightenment; 2. Aesthetics as critique; 3. The difficulty of art; 4. Communication and transformation: aesthetics and politics in Habermas and Arendt; 5. The role of aesthetics in the radicalisation of democracy; 6. Infinite reflection and the shape of praxis; 7. Feeling and/as force.

Product details

• Authors: A. J. Cascardi, Anthony J. Cascardi, Anthony J. (University of California Cascardi
• Assisted by: Anthony Cascardi (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.02.1999
• EAN: 9780521481496
• ISBN: 978-0-521-48149-6
• No. of pages: 278
• Series: Literature, Culture, Theory; Literature, Culture, Theory
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies