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In this timely new book Wellmer intervenes in the highly topical debates on modernity and post--modernity. Discussing the work of Adorno, Habermas, Peter Burger and Jean--Francois Lyotard, among others, he offers a penetrating analysis of the aesthetic, ethical and philosophical dimensions of the modern era.

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'Albrecht Wellmer is one of the liveliest and most challenging German philosophers engaged in recent debates about modernity and postmodernity ... [a] rich and stimulating book ... essential reading.' Richard J. Bernstein, New School for Social Research

'Contributes a good deal to the clarification of the issues currently being debated by theorists of post-modernity.' Political Studies



Table of Contents
Introduction.

1. Truth, Semblance, Reconciliation: Adorno's Aesthetic Redemption of Modernity.

2. The Dialectic of Modernism and Postmodernism: The Critique of Reason Since Adorno.

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      Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 16/05/1991
      ISBN13: 9780745605388, 978-0745605388
      ISBN10: 0745605389

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      In this timely new book Wellmer intervenes in the highly topical debates on modernity and post--modernity. Discussing the work of Adorno, Habermas, Peter Burger and Jean--Francois Lyotard, among others, he offers a penetrating analysis of the aesthetic, ethical and philosophical dimensions of the modern era.

      Trade Review
      'Albrecht Wellmer is one of the liveliest and most challenging German philosophers engaged in recent debates about modernity and postmodernity ... [a] rich and stimulating book ... essential reading.' Richard J. Bernstein, New School for Social Research

      'Contributes a good deal to the clarification of the issues currently being debated by theorists of post-modernity.' Political Studies



      Table of Contents
      Introduction.

      1. Truth, Semblance, Reconciliation: Adorno's Aesthetic Redemption of Modernity.

      2. The Dialectic of Modernism and Postmodernism: The Critique of Reason Since Adorno.

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