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Foucault is often thought to have a great deal to say about the
history of madness and sexuality, but little in terms of a general
analysis of government and the state.; This volume draws on
Foucault's own research to challenge this view, demonstrating the
central importance of his work for the study of contemporary
politics.; It focuses on liberalism and neo- liberalism,
questioning the conceptual opposition of freedom/constraint,
state/market and public/private that inform liberal thought.
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.
Foucault is often thought to have a great deal to say about the
history of madness and sexuality, but little in terms of a general
analysis of government and the state.; This volume draws on
Foucault's own research to challenge this view, demonstrating the
central importance of his work for the study of contemporary
politics.; It focuses on liberalism and neo- liberalism,
questioning the conceptual opposition of freedom/constraint,
state/market and public/private that inform liberal thought.
What is the point of cultural theory? Do we even know what it is?
This book is at once an introduction to, and, broadly, a defence of
modern cultural theory understood as a particular constellation of
inquiry, one that may be all the more important in our postmodern
times the more seemingly irrelevant it is to current fashions.
Focusing on the work of Theodor Adorno, Pierre Bourdieu and Michel
Foucault the book argues that in spite of their differences these
authors shared particularly 'modern' understandings of culture,
creativity and human agency; understandings centred on the ideas of
critical autonomy and creativity of thought. Even though all three
were committed to scholarly empirical research, for them the
function of cultural theory was not just to describe the world
positivistically 'as it is' (or was) but to cultivate the
conditions for ethical autonomy in their readerships by opening up
ways for thinking differently and exposing the fetishisms and
blockages that hinder that task. -- .
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