{"product_id":"the-persistence-of-modernity-isbn-9780262731096","title":"The Persistence of Modernity","description":"\u003cb\u003eEssays on Adorno's aesthetics, the nature of a postmodern ethics, and the persistence of modernity in the so-called postmodern age.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Persistence of Modernity\u003c\/i\u003e 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\u003eAlbrecht Wellmer is Professor of Philosophy at the Free University of Berlin.","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301826711781,"sku":"NP9780262731096","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262731096.jpg?v=1767740943","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-persistence-of-modernity-isbn-9780262731096","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}