Aesthetics & Philosophy of Art, Philosophical Positions & Movements, Intellectual Movements, Major Branches of Philosophical Study, Renaissance & Modern Philosophy
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Overview
In this book, the author shows how Hegelian dialectic as developed by the philosophers of the Frankfurt School offers a tool for the comprehension of a contradictory world and a creative way to see this world as whole again. Contents: The Place of Aesthetics in Society; The Meaning of Meaning; Dialectics-Thinking the Thoughts of the Dice-Playing God; The Search for Truth; On Aesthetic Immediacy; Acting as Creation of Meaning; The Birth of Aestheticism; On Authority; Healing the Fracture; From Communicative Action to Dialectical Communication; Mimesis and Redemption; Community Creation and Art; From Technical Rationality to Dialectical Wholeness; Toward a Materialist Spirituality.
Editorials
Robert Ginsberg
...an interesting and stimulating excursion into fields concerning the provisionality of knowledge and the possibilities for postmodern 'praxis'.Sociology
...an interesting and stimulating excursion into fields concerning the provisionality of knowledge and the possibilities for postmodern 'praxis'.— Robert Ginsberg, The Pennsylvania State University
Book Details
Published
February 28, 1991
Publisher
Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, c1991.
Pages
264
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780819180919