Habermas and Aesthetics: The Limits of Communicative Reason
Pieter Duvenage
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Hardback. In this important new study, Pieter Duvenage shows that Habermas's work on aesthetics, far from being marginal to his core concerns, is central to understanding and evaluating Habermasa s entire theoretical enterprise. Num Pages: 224 pages, 0. BIC Classification: HPCF; HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 159 x 21. Weight in Grams: 448.
In this important new study, Pieter Duvenage shows that Habermas’s work on aesthetics, far from being marginal to his core concerns, is central to understanding and evaluating Habermas's entire theoretical enterprise.
- This important new study shows that Habermas's work on aesthetics is central to understanding and evaluating his entire theoretical enterprise.
- Duvenage demonstrates that, in the first phase of his intellectual career, Habermas emphasizes the communicative and societal relevance of art; in the second phase, the idea of a communicative aesthetics is worked out in terms of a theory of rationality.
- Reveals that Habermas’s later work offers a third, albeit undeveloped, alternative ... Read more
- Offers a critical perspective on the role of aesthetics in Habermas's work and proposes possible alternatives.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745615974
SKU
V9780745615974
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About Pieter Duvenage
Pieter Duvenage is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at Rand Afrikaans University, South Africa.
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