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The Persistence of Modernity: Essays on Aesthetics, Ethics, and Postmodernism

by Albrecht Wellmer
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9780262731096
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: MIT Press
  • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press
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  • Pages: 276
  • Original Price: USD 40.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: Reprint
  • Item Weight: 454 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): General

Essays on Adorno's aesthetics, the nature of a postmodern ethics, and the persistence of modernity in the so-called postmodern age.

The Persistence of Modernity presents four essays 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.

Wellmer, Albrecht: - Albrecht Wellmer is Professor of Philosophy at the Free University of Berlin.

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