Critique of rationality : judgement and creativity from Benjamin to Merleau-Ponty /

Critique of rationality : judgement and creativity from Benjamin to Merleau-Ponty /

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Author / Creator:O'Brien, John Eustice, author.
Imprint:Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016]
Description:xvi, 300 pages ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:Studies in critical social sciences ; volume 99
Studies in critical social sciences ; v. 99.
Subject:
Meaning (Philosophy)
Truth.
Creative ability -- Philosophy.
Rationalism.
Critical theory.
Rationalism.
Social sciences -- Philosophy.
Sociology -- Philosophy.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11038165
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ISBN:9789004272736
9004272739
Notes:Includes bibliography and index
Summary:In his 'Critique of Rationality', John Eustice O'Brien proposes a fascinating rectification for the distortion of technical necessity in Western Society due to unbridled instrumental reason. He begins with a review of this issue first raised by the Early German Romantics as discussed by Isaiah Berlin and Walter Benjamin. Following French social philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty's radically different apperceptive epistemology, he explores the possibility of a social world in which each is anchored by a preobjective disposition to meaning based on the intersubjective presence of all. This justifies the postulate of aesthetic-consciousness as the site of socialization in communities of meaning, as a frame for judgment and creativity. The struggle must continue for awakening that consciousness if an open society is to be realized.

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