In this important new study, Pieter Duvenage shows that Habermas’s work on aesthetics, far from being marginal to his core concerns, is central to understanding and evaluating Habermas's entire theoretical enterprise.
- This important new study shows that Habermas's work on aesthetics is central to understanding and evaluating his entire theoretical enterprise.
- Duvenage demonstrates that, in the first phase of his intellectual career, Habermas emphasizes the communicative and societal relevance of art; in the second phase, the idea of a communicative aesthetics is worked out in terms of a theory of rationality.
- Reveals that Habermas’s later work offers a third, albeit undeveloped, alternative that suggests a convergence of the two.
- Offers a critical perspective on the role of aesthetics in Habermas's work and proposes possible alternatives.
Preface.
Acknowledgements.
Introduction.
Part I: Habermas And Aesthetics: The First Phase:.
1. Initial Influences And Themes In Habermas's Work.
2. The Public Sphere And The Role Of Art.
3. The Decline Of The Public Sphere.
4. Towards A Normative And Rational Public Sphere.
5. An Aesthetics Of Redemption: Habermas's Benjamin Essay.
6. Habermas's Early Reflections On Aesthetics.
Part II: Habermas And The Legacy Of Aesthetics In Critical Theory:.
7. The Initial Research Programme Of Critical Theory.
8. Society As The Result Of Instrumental Reason.
9. Adorno: Instrumental Reason And Aesthetics.
10. The Outer Circl#²
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