The persistence of modernity : essays on aesthetics, ethics, and postmodernism
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The persistence of modernity : essays on aesthetics, ethics, and postmodernism
（Studies in contemporary German social thought）
MIT Press, 1991
1st MIT Press ed
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Ethik und Dialog
Zur Dialektik von Moderne und Postmoderne
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- Truth, semblance, reconciliation
- The dialectic of modernism and postmodernism
- Art and industrial production
- Ethics and dialogue
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"The Persistence of Modernity "presents four essays, drawn from works 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.
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