Document Type : Research Paper
Author
Assistant Professor, Islamic Sciences and Culture Institute (ISCA)
Abstract
This paper aims to provide an aesthetic foundation for Jürgen Habermas’s theory of “Communicative Rationality”. It argues that Immanuel Kant's “Critique of the Power of Judgment” and his unique understanding of aesthetics is efficiently useful in illustrating the logic beyond that Habermas’s innovative theory of communicative rationality. Also it investigates the claimed relation between Theodor Adorno’s explanation of modern art and Habermas’s solutions for getting over the unwelcomed self-alienation process within the contemporary society. Finally it suggests that Adorno’s attention to independent art, unlike Kant’s explanation of aesthetics, is not helpful in shedding light on hidden aesthetic aspects of “communicative rationality”.
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