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Record Nr.

UNINA9910455101503321

Autore

Cascardi Anthony J. <1953->

Titolo

Consequences of Enlightenment / / Anthony J. Cascardi [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 1999

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

Descrizione fisica

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

Collana

Literature, culture, theory ; ; 30

Disciplina

190

Soggetti

Aesthetics - Political aspects

Aesthetics, Modern - 20th century

Enlightenment

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

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

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

; 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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.