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Record Nr.

UNINA9910511992803321

Autore

O'Brien John E.

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

©2016

ISBN

90-04-27264-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (318 p.)

Collana

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

Disciplina

149/.7

Soggetti

Critical theory

Sociology - Philosophy

Social sciences - Philosophy

Rationalism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.