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O'Brien John E. |
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Critique of rationality : judgement and creativity from Benjamin to Merleau-Ponty / / by John Eustice O'Brien |
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Leiden, Netherlands ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : Brill, , 2016 |
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©2016 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (318 p.) |
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Collana |
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Studies in Critical Social Sciences, , 1573-4234 ; ; Volume 99 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Critical theory |
Sociology - Philosophy |
Social sciences - Philosophy |
Rationalism |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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- |
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