Consequences of Enlightenment / Anthony J. Cascardi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cascardi, Anthony J., 1953- author.

Series:

Literature, culture, theory ; 30.

Literature, culture, theory ; 30

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Horkheimer, Max, 1895-1973. Philosophische Fragmente.

Horkheimer, Max.

Aesthetics--Political aspects.

Aesthetics.

Aesthetics, Modern--20th century.

Aesthetics, Modern.

Enlightenment.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 268 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

What is the relationship between contemporary intellectual culture and the European Enlightenment it claims to reject? In Consequences of Enlightenment, Anthony Cascardi revisits the arguments advanced in Horkheimer and Adorno's seminal work Dialectic of Enlightenment. Cascardi argues against the view that postmodern culture has rejected Enlightenment beliefs and explores instead the continuities contemporary theory shares with Kant's failed ambition to bring the project of Enlightenment to completion. He explores the link between aesthetics and politics in thinkers as diverse as Habermas, Derrida, Arendt, Nietzsche, Hegel, and Wittgenstein in order to reverse the tendency to see works of art simply in terms of the worldly practices among which they are situated.

Contents:

1. The consequences of Enlightenment

2. Aesthetics as critique

3. The difficulty of art

4. Communication and transformation: aesthetics and politics in Habermas and Arendt

5. The role of aesthetics in the radicalization of democracy

6. Infinite reflection and the shape of praxis

7. Feeling and/as force.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-107-11264-8

0-511-00486-9

1-280-15189-7

0-511-11621-7

0-511-14928-X

0-511-30295-9

0-511-48310-4

0-511-05313-4

OCLC:

475870563