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

Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction 1. Adorno's Social Philosophy 2. Adorno's Aesthetic Theory 3. Habermas's Social Theory 4. The Literary Discourse of Modernity 5. The Nature of Critique 6. Silenced Needs, Hidden Desires 7. Habermas and the Devil: Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus 8. Imaginative Disclosure and Literary Identification 9. Literary Visions and the Social Imaginary 10. The Phoenix and the Serpent: JK Rowling's Harry Potter Series References Index