Habermas and Literature by Geoff Boucher - 9781501369773

Habermas and LiteratureThe Public Sphere and the Social Imaginary\nAuthor(s): Geoff Boucher\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, United States\nImprint: Bloomsbury Academic\nISBN-13: 9781501369773, 978-1501369773\nSynopsis\nAlthough 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. \n\nHabermas and Literature maintains that literary works have two faces discursive intervention in the public sphere and persona.