Confronting modernity : rationality, science, and communication in German literature of the 1980s

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Confronting modernity : rationality, science, and communication in German literature of the 1980s

Joseph Federico

(Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture / edited by James Hardin, v. 75)

Camden House, 1992

1st ed

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [107]-118) and index

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The modern idea of rationality is incorporated in science, which aims for objective truth, and in communication, which aims for consensus. The author investigates the shifting attitudes toward these notions of rationality and their wider social and political implications for the "project of modernity" in works by Friedrich Durrenmatt, Rolf Hochhuth, Thomas Bernhard, Peter Sloterdijk, Gerhard Roth, and Christoph Ransmayr. Professor Federico's theory is that the growing criticism of the hegemony of science in modern society has also led to a suspicion of communicative rationality and of the ideal of consensus. A detailed analysis of representative texts reveals that only Durrenmatt and, to a lesser extent, Hochhuth remain committed to the ideal of communication and the notion of a public sphere in which public meanings can be voiced and discussed.

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