ISBN:
9780415116862
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (217 p)
Series Statement:
Social Futures
Parallel Title:
Print version The Poverty of Postmodernism
DDC:
303.4
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
An articulate and passionate argument against the postmodern/postraditionalist abandonment of Marxist and phenomenological concepts of reason and commonsense. This is a major and accessible contribution to the debate on postmodernity
Description / Table of Contents:
Book Cover; Title; Contents; Figures and tables; Acknowledgements; Introduction: the two politics of knowledge; alterity and mutuality; Postmodernism and (post) Marxism; The therapeutic disciplines: from Parsons to Foucault; The disciplinary society: from Weber to Foucault; The phenomenological concept of modern knowledge and the Utopian method of Marxist economics; Orphic Marxism; 'Posting' modernity: Bell and Jameson on the social bond; with an allegory of the body politic; On the regulative idea of a critical social science; Mutual knowledge
Description / Table of Contents:
The mutuality of science and common sense: an essay on political trustConclusion: the common-sense case against post-rationalism; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
