The Poverty of Postmodernism

ISBN-13: 9780415116879 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 206 str.

John O'Neill;O'Neill

Opis

This work rejects the current celebration of knowledge and value relativism on the grounds that it renders critical reason and commonsense incapable of resisting the superificial ideologies of minoritarianism that leave the hard core of global capitalism unanalyzed.

Spis treści

Introduction: the two politics of knowledge—alterity and mutuality Part I The politics of disciplinary knowledge 1 Postmodernism and (post) Marxism 2 The therapeutic disciplines: from Parsons to Foucault 3 The disciplinary society: from Weber to Foucault 4 The phenomenological concept of modern knowledge and the Utopian method of Marxist economics 5 Orphic Marxism Part II The politics of mutual knowledge 6 ‘Posting’ modernity: Bell and Jameson on the social bond—with an allegory of the body politic 7 On the regulative idea of a critical social science 8 Mutual knowledge 9 The mutuality of science and common sense: an essay on political trust Conclusion: the common-sense case against post-rationalism

O autorze

John O’Neill is Distinguished Research Professor of Sociology, York University, Toronto.