Critique of rationality : judgement and creativity from Benjamin to Merleau-Ponty / by John Eustice O'Brien.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

O'Brien, John E., author.

Series:

Studies in critical social sciences ; Volume 99.

Studies in Critical Social Sciences, 1573-4234 ; Volume 99

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Critical theory.

Sociology--Philosophy.

Sociology.

Social sciences--Philosophy.

Social sciences.

Rationalism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (318 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden, Netherlands ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : Brill, 2016.

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 préobjective 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.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / John Eustice O’Brien

Overview / John Eustice O’Brien

Meaning as Critical for Social Sciences / John Eustice O’Brien

Isaiah Berlin’s Romantic Uncertainty / John Eustice O’Brien

Walter Benjamin’s Aesthetic Critique / John Eustice O’Brien

The Crisis of Western Rationality / John Eustice O’Brien

Phenomenology of Perception / John Eustice O’Brien

Merleau-Ponty’s Sociology / John Eustice O’Brien

Merleau-Ponty’s Shadow’s Husserl / John Eustice O’Brien

Aesthetic Consciousness / John Eustice O’Brien

Closing Issues: Consciousness over Mind? / John Eustice O’Brien

Bibliography / John Eustice O’Brien

Index / John Eustice O’Brien.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-27264-X

OCLC:

953708933

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004272644 DOI