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Author_John O'Neill
Body Politic
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Civic Democracy
common
Common Sense
Common Sense Action
Common Sense Knowledge
critical social theory
critique of postmodern social theory
disciplinary
Disciplinary Society
Durkheimian Reflection
embodied mind philosophy
epistemology critique
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Foucault's Studies
Foucault’s Studies
fragmentation
Human Suffering
Industrial Discipline
interpretative
Interpretative Sociology
Jameson's Effort
Jameson’s Effort
Kindred
knowledge
Liberal Contract Theory
Libidinal Body
Marxist Humanism
Modern Knowledge
Mutual Knowledge
phenomenological sociology
rationality in social sciences
Roundabout
Schutz's Postulate
Schutz’s Postulate
science
sense
social
Social System
society
Sociological Discourse
sociology
value relativism debate
Violates
Winch's Argument
Winch’s Argument
Product details
- ISBN 9780415116879
- Weight: 294g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 20 Oct 1994
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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The Poverty of Postmodernism rejects the current celebration of knowledge and value relativism. This is on the grounds that it renders critical reason and commonsense incapable of resisting the superifical 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 postrationalist 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 superificiality 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.
John O’Neill is Distinguished Research Professor of Sociology, York University, Toronto.
