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International Standard Book Number 9789004272644
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Item number .O273 2016
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Classification number 149/.7
Edition information 23
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name O'Brien, John E.
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Title Critique of rationality :
Remainder of title judgement and creativity from Benjamin to Merleau-Ponty /
Statement of responsibility, etc. by John Eustice O'Brien.
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Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture Leiden ;
-- Boston :
Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer Brill,
Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice [2016]
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Extent 1 online resource (xvi, 300 pages) :
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Series statement Studies in critical social sciences,
International Standard Serial Number 1573-4234 ;
Volume/sequential designation v. 99
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Bibliography, etc. note Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-294) and index.
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Title Preliminary Material /
Statement of responsibility John Eustice O’Brien --
Title Overview /
Statement of responsibility John Eustice O’Brien --
Title Meaning as Critical for Social Sciences /
Statement of responsibility John Eustice O’Brien --
Title Isaiah Berlin’s Romantic Uncertainty /
Statement of responsibility John Eustice O’Brien --
Title Walter Benjamin’s Aesthetic Critique /
Statement of responsibility John Eustice O’Brien --
Title The Crisis of Western Rationality /
Statement of responsibility John Eustice O’Brien --
Title Phenomenology of Perception /
Statement of responsibility John Eustice O’Brien --
Title Merleau-Ponty’s Sociology /
Statement of responsibility John Eustice O’Brien --
Title Merleau-Ponty’s Shadow’s Husserl /
Statement of responsibility John Eustice O’Brien --
Title Aesthetic Consciousness /
Statement of responsibility John Eustice O’Brien --
Title Closing Issues: Consciousness over Mind? /
Statement of responsibility John Eustice O’Brien --
Title Bibliography /
Statement of responsibility John Eustice O’Brien --
Title Index /
Statement of responsibility John Eustice O’Brien.
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Terms governing access Available to subscribing member institutions only.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. 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.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Sociology
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Social sciences
General subdivision Philosophy.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Rationalism.
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Relationship information Online version:
Main entry heading O'Brien, John E., author.
Title Critique of rationality
Place, publisher, and date of publication Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016]
International Standard Book Number 9789004272644
Record control number (DLC) 2016047786
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Uniform title Studies in Critical Social Sciences
Volume/sequential designation 99.
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Uniform title Social Sciences E-Books Online, Collection 2017-I, ISBN: 9789004328105.
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Public note DOI:
Uniform Resource Identifier <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004272644">http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004272644</a>

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