Critique of rationality : judgement and creativity from Benjamin to Merleau-Ponty /
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Author / Creator: | O'Brien, John E., author. |
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Imprint: | Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016] |
Description: | 1 online resource |
Language: | English |
Series: | Studies in critical social sciences ; volume 99 Studies in critical social sciences ; v. 99. |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11757594 |
ISBN: | 9789004272644 900427264X 9789004272736 9004272739 |
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Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed. |
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. |
Other form: | Print version: O'Brien, John E. Critique of rationality. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016] 9789004272736 |
Standard no.: | 10.1163/9789004272644 |
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