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

• Autore: O'Brien John E.
• Pubblicazione: Leiden, Netherlands ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : Brill, , 2016; ©2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (318 p.)
• Disciplina: 149/.7
• Soggetto topico: Critical theory; Sociology - Philosophy; Social sciences - Philosophy; Rationalism
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Critique of rationality
• ISBN: 90-04-27264-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910511992803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Studies in critical social sciences ; ; Volume 99.