Consequences of Enlightenment

What is the relationship between contemporary intellectual culture and the European Enlightenment? In Consequences of Enlightenment, Anthony Cascardi revisits the arguments advanced in Horkheimer and Adorno's seminal work Dialectic of Enlightenment. Cascardi argues that postmodern culture does not reject Enlightenment beliefs and explores the link between aesthetics and politics in thinkers as diverse as Habermas, Derrida, Arendt, Nietzsche, Hegel and Wittgenstein. He reverses the tendency to see art simply in terms of the worldly practices among which it is situated. Aesthetic objects, he argues, are themselves capable of disclosing truth.

Author: Anthony J. Cascardi
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 02/04/1999
Pages: 278
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.49h x 5.63w x 0.57d
ISBN13: 9780521484909
ISBN10: 0521484901
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory
- Philosophy | Aesthetics
- Philosophy | History & Surveys | Modern

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