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Examines the relations among knowledge, politics, aesthetics, and individuality.

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Author:   Martin Leet
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.363kg
ISBN:  

9780791460092

ISBN 10:   0791460096
Pages:   174
Publication Date:   29 April 2004
Audience:   General/trade ,  Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  General ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Acknowledgments Introduction: What Is the Value of Knowledge? Two Stories About the Aftereffects of Knowledge Knowledge, Aesthetics, and Individuality Politics and Individuality The Chapters That Follow PART I: RETURNING TO OURSELVES 1. Recovering the Individual in Critical Theory Back to Basics? Pleasure and Pain Weakening the Link Between Theory and Practice Reconnecting Theory with Practice: The ""Causality of Fate"" Communicative Versus Subject-Centered Reason 2. Individuality Amid Social Progress The Politics of Suffering Habermas's Reconstruction of Progressive Ideals Modernity and the Adolescent Crisis Rethinking Progress 3. Dogmatic Retreats and Skeptical Adventures The Dangers of Dialectic Dogmatic Retreats: Habermas and Butler Skeptical Adventures: Nietzsche and the Ancient Skeptics PART II: DEMOCRACY, AESTHETICS, AND INDIVIDUALITY 4. Habermas's Democratic Proceduralism Procedural Compensations for Weak Individuality The Limits of Proceduralism Expectations of Individuals in Radical Democracy 5. Democracy and Individuality: Kateb and Connolly Democracy and the Existential Dimension Kateb and Emerson: Tensions Between the Moral and the Aesthetic Connolly and Nietzsche: Can Arts of the Self Be Political? 6. Spaces for Individuality Adding to the Pressures Against Individuality Individuality Without the Constraints of Intersubjectivity Individuality and Participation in Politics Politics Without Meaning and Individuality as Citizenship Notes Index"

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Leet treats the increasingly important topic of the aesthetic in a complex and interesting way by applying it to the question of individuality. Moreover, his tying individuality to developments in the evolution of knowledge is creative, original, and controversial.

Leet treats the increasingly important topic of the aesthetic in a complex and interesting way by applying it to the question of individuality. Moreover, his tying individuality to developments in the evolution of knowledge is creative, original, and controversial. - Morton Schoolman, author of Reason and Horror: Critical Theory, Democracy, and Aesthetic Individuality

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Martin Leet is Lecturer in Political Theory at the University of Queensland.

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