This is an introductory account of social theory and the central
role of enlightenment within it. Tom Osborne argues that:
contemporary social theory can only fail when viewed as a "science
of society", and rather than focusing upon the question of society
or even "modernity" should focus on the question of human nature.
The most immediate and central topic of such a social theory should
be the question of enlightenment. However, the book departs from
traditional accounts locating the vocation of social theory in the
system of values established in the original Enlightenment by the
French philosophers and others. Rather it makes a strong argument
for the ethical status of enlightenment, going on to analyze
particular "regimes of enlightenment" in modernity, namely those
associated with the social ethics of science, expertise, intellect
and art.
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