Critique of rationality : judgement and creativity from Benjamin to Merleau-Ponty /
O'Brien, John E.
Critique of rationality : judgement and creativity from Benjamin to Merleau-Ponty / by John Eustice O'Brien. - 1 online resource (xvi, 300 pages) : illustrations. - Studies in critical social sciences, v. 99 1573-4234 ; . - Studies in Critical Social Sciences 99. Social Sciences E-Books Online, Collection 2017-I, ISBN: 9789004328105. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-294) and index.
Preliminary Material / Overview / Meaning as Critical for Social Sciences / Isaiah Berlin’s Romantic Uncertainty / Walter Benjamin’s Aesthetic Critique / The Crisis of Western Rationality / Phenomenology of Perception / Merleau-Ponty’s Sociology / Merleau-Ponty’s Shadow’s Husserl / Aesthetic Consciousness / Closing Issues: Consciousness over Mind? / Bibliography / Index / John Eustice O’Brien -- John Eustice O’Brien -- John Eustice O’Brien -- John Eustice O’Brien -- John Eustice O’Brien -- John Eustice O’Brien -- John Eustice O’Brien -- John Eustice O’Brien -- John Eustice O’Brien -- John Eustice O’Brien -- John Eustice O’Brien -- John Eustice O’Brien -- John Eustice O’Brien.
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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-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.
9789004272644
10.1163/9789004272644 DOI
2016034431
Critical theory.
Sociology--Philosophy.
Social sciences--Philosophy.
Rationalism.
Critical theory.
Rationalism.
Social sciences--Philosophy.
Sociology--Philosophy.
HM480 / .O273 2016
149/.7
Critique of rationality : judgement and creativity from Benjamin to Merleau-Ponty / by John Eustice O'Brien. - 1 online resource (xvi, 300 pages) : illustrations. - Studies in critical social sciences, v. 99 1573-4234 ; . - Studies in Critical Social Sciences 99. Social Sciences E-Books Online, Collection 2017-I, ISBN: 9789004328105. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-294) and index.
Preliminary Material / Overview / Meaning as Critical for Social Sciences / Isaiah Berlin’s Romantic Uncertainty / Walter Benjamin’s Aesthetic Critique / The Crisis of Western Rationality / Phenomenology of Perception / Merleau-Ponty’s Sociology / Merleau-Ponty’s Shadow’s Husserl / Aesthetic Consciousness / Closing Issues: Consciousness over Mind? / Bibliography / Index / John Eustice O’Brien -- John Eustice O’Brien -- John Eustice O’Brien -- John Eustice O’Brien -- John Eustice O’Brien -- John Eustice O’Brien -- John Eustice O’Brien -- John Eustice O’Brien -- John Eustice O’Brien -- John Eustice O’Brien -- John Eustice O’Brien -- John Eustice O’Brien -- John Eustice O’Brien.
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
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.
9789004272644
10.1163/9789004272644 DOI
2016034431
Critical theory.
Sociology--Philosophy.
Social sciences--Philosophy.
Rationalism.
Critical theory.
Rationalism.
Social sciences--Philosophy.
Sociology--Philosophy.
HM480 / .O273 2016
149/.7