The Persistence of Modernity: Essays on Aesthetics, Ethics, and Postmodernism 9780262731096, 0262731096

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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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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

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Truth, Semblance,

Reconciliation:

Adorno’s

Aesthetic Redemption of Modernity 2

The Dialectic of Modernism

Postmodernism:

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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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