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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783956103321

Autore

O'Neill John <1933-2022, >

Titolo

The poverty of postmodernism / / John O'Neill

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1994

ISBN

1-134-81798-3

1-134-81799-1

0-203-29482-3

1-280-32071-0

9786610320714

0-203-42966-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (217 p.)

Collana

Social futures

Disciplina

303.4

Soggetti

Postmodernism - Social aspects

Arts, Modern - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Figures and tables; Acknowledgements; Introduction: the two politics of knowledge; alterity and mutuality; Postmodernism and (post) Marxism; The therapeutic disciplines: from Parsons to Foucault; The disciplinary society: from Weber to Foucault; The phenomenological concept of modern knowledge and the Utopian method of Marxist economics; Orphic Marxism; 'Posting' modernity: Bell and Jameson on the social bond; with an allegory of the body politic; On the regulative idea of a critical social science; Mutual knowledge

The mutuality of science and common sense: an essay on political trustConclusion: the common-sense case against post-rationalism; Index;

Sommario/riassunto

An articulate and passionate argument against the postmodern/postraditionalist abandonment of Marxist and phenomenological concepts of reason and commonsense. This is a major and accessible contribution to the debate on postmodernity.