{"product_id":"the-persistence-of-modernity-essays-on-aesthetics-ethics-and-postmodernism-studies-in-contemporary-german-social-thought-0262731096","title":"The Persistence of Modernity: Essays on Aesthetics, Ethics, and Postmodernism (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0262731096\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Wellmer, Albrecht\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEssays on Adorno's aesthetics, the nature of a postmodern ethics, and the persistence of modernity in the so-called postmodern age.The Persistence of Modernity presents four essays 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51708708258080,"sku":"NEW0262731096","price":45.56,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/71m9P1QTCsL.jpg?v=1779394631","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/the-persistence-of-modernity-essays-on-aesthetics-ethics-and-postmodernism-studies-in-contemporary-german-social-thought-0262731096","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}