In Defense of Dialogue: Reading Habermas and Postwar American Literature

In Defense of Dialogue: Reading Habermas and Postwar American Literature

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In Defense of Dialogue: Reading Habermas and Postwar American Literature offers a timely investigation of the value of dialogue in contemporary American culture: Using Jürgen Habermas's theory of communicative action to read the work of Frank O'Hara, James Baldwin, Grace Paley, and Andy Warhol, In Defense of Dialogue assembles postwar writers who have never been studied alongside one another, showing how they overcame the pervading skepticism of their contemporaries to imagine sincere and rational speakers who seek to cultivate intersubjective discourse.

ISBN

9781003005858

Publication Date

3-17-2020

Publisher

Routledge

In Defense of Dialogue: Reading Habermas and Postwar American Literature

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