Habermas and Aesthetics: The Limits of Communicative ReasonISBN: 978-0-7456-1597-4
Hardcover
224 pages
August 2003, Polity
Other Available Formats: Paperback
|
In this important new study, Pieter Duvenage shows that
Habermas’s work on aesthetics, far from being marginal to his
core concerns, is central to understanding and evaluating
Habermas's entire theoretical enterprise.
- This important new study shows that Habermas's work on
aesthetics is central to understanding and evaluating his entire
theoretical enterprise.
- Duvenage demonstrates that, in the first phase of his
intellectual career, Habermas emphasizes the communicative and
societal relevance of art; in the second phase, the idea of a
communicative aesthetics is worked out in terms of a theory of
rationality.
- Reveals that Habermas’s later work offers a third, albeit
undeveloped, alternative that suggests a convergence of the
two.
- Offers a critical perspective on the role of aesthetics in Habermas's work and proposes possible alternatives.