num_pages: 264
description: In this book, the author shows how Hegelian dialectic as developed by the philosophers of the Frankfurt School offers a tool for the comprehension of a contradictory world and a creative way to see this world as whole again. The Place of Aesthetics in Society; The Meaning of Meaning; DialecticsóThinking the Thoughts of the Dice-Playing God; The Search for Truth; On Aesthetic Immediacy; Acting as Creation of Meaning; The Birth of Aestheticism; On Authority; Healing the Fracture; From Communicative Action to Dialectical Communication; Mimesis and Redemption; Community Creation and Art; From Technical Rationality to Dialectical Wholeness; Toward a Materialist Spirituality.
language: English
title: The Dice-Playing God
titlecomplete: The Dice-Playing God
publisher: University Press Of America