Critique of Rationality : Judgement and Creativity from Benjamin to Merleau-Ponty

Drawing on Walter Benjamin's doctoral thesis on the Early German Romantics and Maurice Merleau-Ponty's apperceptive phenomenology, with his Critique of Rationality, John Eustice O'Brien proposes an original epistemology based on the préobjective energy of aesthetic consciousness of human being in the social world.