The Poverty of Postmodernism (Paperback, New)

"The Poverty of Postmodernism" 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 unanalyzed. In this book John O'Neill examines the postmodern turn in the social sciences. From a phenomenological standpoint (Husserl, Merleau, Ponty, Schutz, Winch), he challenges Lyotard's postrational 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. "The Poverty of" "Postmodernism" 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.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Social Futures
Release date:	October 1994
First published:	1995
Authors:	John O'Neill
Dimensions:	216 x 138 x 12mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	206
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-415-11687-9
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Epistemology, theory of knowledge Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > General Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present > Western philosophy, from c 1900 - > Phenomenology & Existentialism Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Epistemology, theory of knowledge Books > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present > Western philosophy, from c 1900 - > Phenomenology & Existentialism Promotions
LSN:	0-415-11687-2
Barcode:	9780415116879

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