1984a
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aesthetic
Aesthetic Education
Aesthetic Enlightenment
Aesthetic Field
Aesthetic Sphere
attitude
Author_Thomas Osbourne
Category=JH
Civil Society
critical
critical rationality
Disengaged
Durkheim
Emile Durkheim
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ethical
Ethical Expertise
Ethical Subjection
ethical subjectivity
expertise
Follow
Hold
Inclined
intellectual history
lyotard
Lyotard 1984a
Make Up
modernity critique
Moral Expertise
Negative Anthropology
Persona
Postwar
science and society
scientific
Scientific Enlightenment
Sir Francis Bacon
social
Social Sciences
social theory ethics analysis
sociological epistemology
sphere
Subject Object Model
Vice Versa
Weber's Work
Weber’s Work
Product details
- ISBN 9781857288537
- Weight: 460g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 31 Jul 1998
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
Thomas Osborne is Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the University of Bristol. His work in the fields of critical theory, epistemology and the history and sociology of medicine has appeared in Economy and Society, The Journal of Historical Sociology, Social Studies of Science, Social Science and Medicine, and History of the Human Sciences.
