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The Limits of Scientific Reason - Habermas, Foucault, and Science as a Social Institution (Hardcover)
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The Limits of Scientific Reason - Habermas, Foucault, and Science as a Social Institution (Hardcover)
Series: Continental Philosophy in Austral-Asia
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Critically and comprehensively examining the works of Habermas and
Foucault, two giants of 20th century continental philosophy, this
book illuminates the effects of scientific reason as it migrates
from its specialized institutions into society. It explores how
science permeates shared human consciousness, to produce effects
that ripple through the entire social body to restructure relations
between discourses, institutions, and power in ways which we are
barely conscious of. The book shows how science, through its
entwinement with power, politics, discourses, and practices,
presents certain social arrangements as natural and certain courses
of action as beyond question. By arguing for a non-reductive,
liberal scientific naturalism that sees science as one form of
rationality amongst others, it opens possibilities for thought and
action beyond scientific knowledge. The book analyses the work of
Foucault and Habermas in terms of their social, political, and
historical contexts. It examines science in relation to society,
power, and discourses and their shifting historical relations. But
rather than withdrawing from normative dimensions by merely
describing scientific practices within their contexts, McIntyre
explicitly opens the normative question of the good life and the
good society. He thus simultaneously raises the question of
philosophy and how philosophical critique is both directed towards
science and, at the same time, must accommodate it. Foucault and
Habermas emerge as linked by a commitment to the Enlightenment
tradition and its emancipatory telos which underlies their work.
The significant differences between the two thinkers are seen to
result from Foucault's radicalization of this tradition, a
radicalization which is, at the same time, implicit within the
Enlightenment project itself.
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