The Persistence of Modernity: Essays on Aesthetics, Ethics, and Postmodernism 9780262731096, 0262731096
Essays on Adorno's aesthetics, the nature of a postmodern ethics, and the persistence of modernity in the so-called
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Persistence
Essays on Aesthetics, Ethics, and Postmodernism
~ ALBRECHT WELLMER
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The Persistence
of
Modernity
The Persistence of
Modernity Essays on Aesthetics, Ethics, and Postmodernism
ALBRECHT WELLMER Translated by David Midgley
The MIT Press Cambridge, Massachusetts
First MIT Press paperback edition, 1993
First MIT Press edition 1991
Translation © 1991 Polity Press These essays are drawn from two collections of the author’s work: Ethik und Dialog and Zur Dialektik von Moderne und Postmoderne, Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
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All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means (including photocopying, recording, or information storage and retrieval) without permission in writing from the publisher.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Wellmer, Albrecht.
(Selections. English. 1991] The persistence of modernity : essays on aesthetics, ethics, and postmodernism / Albrecht Wellmer ; translated by David Midgley.— 1st MIT Press ed. p. cm. — (Studies in contemporary German social thought) Essays selected and translated from: Ethik und Dialog and Zur Dialektik von Moderne und Postmoderne. Contents:
Truth, semblance,
reconciliation —
The dialectic of
modernism and postmodernism — Art and industrial production— Ethics and dialogue. ISBN 0-262-23160-3 (HB), 0-262-73109-6 (PB) 1. Aesthetics, Modern. 2. Ethics, Modern. 3. Critical thought. 4. Postmodernism. I. Title. II. Series. BH151.W44213 1991 9045286 190’.9'045—dc20 CIP
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Introduction
1
Truth, Semblance,
Reconciliation:
Adorno’s
Aesthetic Redemption of Modernity 2
The Dialectic of Modernism
Postmodernism:
and
The Critique of Reason
since Adorno 3
Art and Industrial Production: The Dialectics of Modernism and Postmodernism
4
Ethics and Dialogue: Elements of Moral Judgement in Kant and Discourse Ethics
Notes
Index
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