Consequences of Enlightenment /

What is the relationship between contemporary intellectual culture and the European Enlightenment it claims to reject? In Consequences of Enlightenment, Anthony J. Cascardi revisits the arguments advanced in Horkheimer and Adorno's seminal work Dialectic of Enlightenment. Cascardi argues agains...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cascardi, Anthony J., 1953-
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Series:Literature, culture, theory ; 30.
Online Access:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=55235
Table of Contents:
  • 1. The consequences of Enlightenment
  • 2. Aesthetics as critique
  • 3. The difficulty of art
  • 4. Communication and transformation: aesthetics and politics in Habermas and Arendt
  • 5. The role of aesthetics in the radicalization of democracy
  • 6. Infinite reflection and the shape of praxis
  • 7. Feeling and/as force.