03324nam 2200553 450 991079866360332120230126215540.090-04-27264-X10.1163/9789004272644(CKB)3710000000846659(EBL)4715133(MiAaPQ)EBC4715133(OCoLC)953708933(OCoLC)965750172(nllekb)BRILL9789004272644(EXLCZ)99371000000084665920161020h20162016 uy 0engur|n|---|||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierCritique of rationality judgement and creativity from Benjamin to Merleau-Ponty /by John Eustice O'BrienLeiden, Netherlands ;Boston, [Massachusetts] :Brill,2016.©20161 online resource (318 p.)Studies in Critical Social Sciences,1573-4234 ;Volume 99Description based upon print version of record.90-04-27273-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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.Studies in critical social sciences ;Volume 99.Critical theorySociologyPhilosophySocial sciencesPhilosophyRationalismCritical theory.SociologyPhilosophy.Social sciencesPhilosophy.Rationalism.149/.7O'Brien John E.1026257MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910798663603321Critique of rationality3671230UNINA