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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