Habermas and Literature: The Public Sphere and the Social Imaginary (Hardcover)

INTRODUCTION 1.Adorno's Social Philosophy 2.Adorno's Aesthetic Theory 3.Habermas: Critical Theory with Emancipatory Intent 4.The Literary Discourse of Modernity CRITIQUE 5.Critique: Literary Rationality in the Public Sphere 6.Silenced Needs, Hidden Desires-Psychoanalysis and Critique DISCLOSURE 7.Worlds: Imaginative Identification and Visionary Disclosure 8.Reality and Illusion: The Social Imaginary and the Poetics of Disclosure MASS ENLIGHTENMENT 9.Problems and Borders in Critique (Mann and Calvino) 10.Fantastic Disclosures and the Social Imaginary (Rowling and Martin) Bibliography Index