Habermas and Adorno on Reason and Rationality
b'What happens when \\u201creason\\u201d is in decline, when the world appears to be moving in the direction of irrationality and political pathology? Martin Jay discusses how two Frankfurt School thinkers, Theodor Adorno and J\\xfcrgen Habermas, tried to salvage a critical version of reason. Whereas Adorno looked to art and aesthetics, Habermas appealed to practices of interpersonal communication and argumentation. (Encore presentation.)\\nMartin Jay, Reason after Its Eclipse: On Late Critical Theory University of Wisconsin Press, 2016\\n\\nThe post Habermas and Adorno on Reason and Rationality appeared first on KPFA.'