TY  - BOOK
AU  - O'Brien,John E.
TI  - Critique of rationality: judgement and creativity from Benjamin to Merleau-Ponty 
T2  - Studies in critical social sciences,
SN  - 9789004272644
AV  - HM480 .O273 2016
U1  - 149/.7 23
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - Leiden, Boston
PB  - Brill
KW  - Critical theory
KW  - Sociology
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Social sciences
KW  - Rationalism
KW  - fast
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-294) 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; Available to subscribing member institutions only
N2  - 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
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004272644
ER  -