Abstract

This book is another "post-modern critique of modernity," in this case concluding with a brief suggestion that a "reinterpretation of the concept of 'aesthetic judgment' that originates in Kant," under the name of "aesthetic liberalism," can solve the problems of modernity. The argument is that there is a distinctively modern but self-contradictory conception of the self. But what is really at issue is the modern conception of rationality, broadly defined, rather than any more focused conception of the self