The Persistence of Modernity

Essays on Aesthetics, Ethics, and Postmodernism
Erscheinungsjahr 1993
ISBN: 978-0-262-73109-6
Verlag: MIT Press

Buch, Englisch, 276 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 410 g

Reihe: Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought

The Persistence of Modernity presents four essays, drawn from works by
one of Germany's foremost philosophers, that go to the heart of a number of
contemporary issues: Adorno's aesthetics, the nature of a postmodern ethics, and the
persistence of modernity in the so-called postmodern age.Albrecht Wellmer defends
the general thesis that modernity contains its own critique and that what has been
called postmodernism is in fact a further articulation of that critique. More
specifically, his essays offer a reinterpretation of Adorno's aesthetics in the
framework of a postutopian philosophy of communicative reason, an analysis of the
postmodern critique of instrumental reason and its subject that becomes an argument
for democratic pluralism and universalism, a discussion of the dialectics of
modernism and postmodernism in the context of architecture and industrial design,
and a dialogical ethics that is inspired by and yet takes issue with Habermas's
discourse ethics.Albrecht Wellmer is Professor of Philosophy at the University of
Berlin.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wellmer, Albrecht

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden

Über Autor(innen)

Wellmer, Albrecht
Albrecht Wellmer is Professor of Philosophy at the Free University of
Berlin.