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Aspects of Enlightenment
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1998
Summary
Aspects of Enlightenment is an attempt to reconfigure the terrain of contemporary social theory. Critical of sociologistic approaches in that discipline and of vague concepts such as modernity and postmodernity, the book argues that the proper subject matter of social theory is enlightenment itself. Dismissing for the most part the conflicts in social and critical theory between realist and relativist approaches, the book argues for the merits of various limited kinds of anti-foundationalism that would guide fieldwork in specific areas of enlightenment. As a means of illustrating this approach, the book focuses on case studies that consider critical attitudes to scientific, therapeutic and aesthetic kinds of enlightenment. A key theme throughout the book is the status of the social sciences themselves with regard to the question of enlightenment, as well as with the nature of the vocation of the intellectual as the embodiment of particular kinds of critical ethos. Finally, the book in an oblique homage to the work of Michel Foucault who figures here, along with Max Weber, as an exemplar of the critical attitude to enlightenment.
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Edition
1/1998
Copyright Year
1998
ISBN-Print
978-0-8476-9077-0
ISBN-Online
978-0-7425-7086-3
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
217
Product Type
Monograph
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Table of Contents No access
Preface No access
Acknowledgements No access
Introduction Of Enlightenmentality No access Pages 1 - 16
Chapter 1: Reason, Truth and Criticism No access Pages 17 - 40
Chapter 2: Aspects of Scientific Enlightenment No access Pages 41 - 70
Chapter 3: Aspects of Therapeutic Enlightenment No access Pages 71 - 100
Chapter 4: Aspects of Aesthetic Enlightenment No access Pages 101 - 124
Chapter 5: Questioning Enlightenment: Ethics of Truth in Foucault and Weber No access Pages 125 - 148
Chapter 6: Agents of Enlightenment: in Praise of Intellectuals No access Pages 149 - 176
Conclusion Social Theory, Sociology and The Ethics of Criticism No access Pages 177 - 194
