{"product_id":"the-persistence-of-modernity-essays-on-aesthetics-ethics-and-postmodernism-9780262731096","title":"The Persistence of Modernity: Essays on Aesthetics, Ethics, and Postmodernism","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Albrecht Wellmer\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: MIT Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEssays on Adorno's aesthetics, the nature of a postmodern ethics, and the persistence of modernity in the so-called postmodern age.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Persistence of Modernity\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47614983766167,"sku":"9780262731096","price":4673.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780262731096.webp?v=1775097597","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-persistence-of-modernity-essays-on-aesthetics-ethics-and-postmodernism-9780262731096","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}