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Habermas and Literature - The Public Sphere and the Social Imaginary (Paperback)
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Habermas and Literature - The Public Sphere and the Social Imaginary (Paperback)
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Although Habermas has written about the cultural role of literature
and about literary works, he has not systematically articulated a
literary-critical method as a component of either communicative
reason or post-metaphysical thinking. Habermas and Literature
brings Habermasian concepts and categories into contact with
aesthetic and cultural theories in and around the Frankfurt School,
and beyond. Its central claim is that Habermas' contribution to
literary and cultural criticism is the concept of literary
rationality and the notion that literature performs a key role in
the formation of the modern social imaginary. Habermas and
Literature maintains that literary works have "two faces" -
discursive intervention in the public sphere and personal
integration of imaginative disclosures - that depend upon two
modalities of literary reception: critique and identification. It
develops the resulting literary theory through detailed discussion
of the theories advanced by Habermas, followed in each case by
synthetic and reconstructive argumentation that brings the
framework of communicative reason into dialogue with literary
methods, aesthetic theories and psychoanalytic categories. It does
so through close engagement with debates around aesthetic
rationality, world disclosure, social imaginaries, post-secular
society and the utopian demand for happiness articulated by
artworks. In the process, the Habermasian position is critically
reconstructed when necessary, with reference to psychoanalytic and
literary theories, and tested, in relation to demanding fiction and
popular works.
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