Consequences of Enlightenment

by Anthony J. Cascardi

Book Overview

What is the relationship between contemporary intellectual culture and the European Enlightenment? In Consequences of Enlightenment, Anthony Cascardi revisits the arguments advanced in Horkheimer and Adorno's seminal work Dialectic of Enlightenment. Cascardi argues that postmodern culture does not reject Enlightenment beliefs and explores the link between aesthetics and politics in thinkers as diverse as Habermas, Derrida, Arendt, Nietzsche, Hegel...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521484901
• ISBN13: 9780521484909
• Release Date: February 1999
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.6" x 8.5"