John O'Neill

The Poverty of Postmodernism

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Produktbeschreibung

In this book John O'Neill examines the postmodern turn in the social sciences. He rejects the current celebration of knowledge and value relativism on the grounds that it renders critical reason and common sense incapable of resisting the superficial ideologies of minoritarianism that leave the hard core of global capitalism unanalysed. From a phenomenological standpoint (Husserl, Merleau-Ponty, Schutz, Winch), O'Neill challenges Lyotard's post-traditionalist reading of Wittgenstein and Habermas in order to defend commonsense reason and values that are constitutive of the everyday life-world. In addition he argues from the standpoint of Vico and Marx on the civil history of embodied mind that the post-rationalist celebration of the arts of superficiality undermines the recognition of the cultural debt each generation owes to past and post-generations. In a positive way O'Neill develops an account of the historical vocation of reason and of the charitable accountability of science to commonsense that is necessary to sustain the basic institutions of civic democracy. This book will be of interest to anyone concerned to understand the continuing relevance of Marx, Weber, Husserl and Schutz to the debates around Wittgenstein, Lyotard, Foucault and Jameson.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Oktober 1994
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 223mm x 143mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 363g
• ISBN-13: 9780415116862
• ISBN-10: 0415116864
• Artikelnr.: 22076431

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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