Critique of Rationality
Judgement and Creativity from Benjamin to Merleau-Ponty
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23534154 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John E O'Brien |
| Year | 2016 |
| Publication date | 2016-09-07 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Critique of Rationality (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Brill (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1163/9789004272644 |
| OpenAlex | W4244091328 |
| ISBN | 9789004272644 |
| Language | FR |
| Citations received | 3 |
In his Critique of Rationality, John Eustice O'Brien proposes a fascinating rectification for the distortion of technical necessity in Western Society due to unbridled instrumental reason. He begins with a review of this issue first raised by the Early German Romantics as discussed by Isaiah Berlin and Walter Benjamin. Following French social philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty's radically different apperceptive epistemology, he explores the possibility of a social world in which each is anchored by a préobjective disposition to meaning based on the intersubjective presence of all. This justifies the postulate of aesthetic-consciousness as the site of socialization in communities of meaning, as a frame for judgment and creativity. The struggle must continue for awakening that consciousness if an open society is to be realized.
Aesthetics · Consciousness · Creativity · Epistemology · German · Meaning (existential) · Psychoanalysis · Rationality · Social science · Socialization · Sociology · Critical Theory and Philosophy · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.38 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2018 - 2018 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |