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Delivering a major contribution to present controversies concerning background, social theory,politics, and the Foucault\n-\Habermas debates, this paintings deals a close comparability of the transformative makes use of of historical past in Foucault and Habermas, utilizing Marx as a modernist distinction. The booklet sincerely illustrates the benefits and drawbacks of every thinker's idea for the efficient research of heritage and society, bearing on the paintings of every to present debates over glossy and postmodern concept.
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12. 13. 14. some Enlightenment thinkers like Voltaire and Gibbon also rejected a strictly negative view of the medieval era. ). Before such accounts, European knowledge of other cultures was limited to classical antiquity and stereotyped images of non-Western savages. As cosmologists reduced the earth to one planet among many, and anthropologists brought Europe and its Western heritage into a larger family of diverse cultures, “Homo Europeenis came gradually to believe that neither the world nor the universe revolved entirely round his collective person” (27).
Moreover, the first major discourses of the postmodern emerged in the field of historiography, where Somerville and Toynbee posited a new discontinuity in history, a post-modern era that was said to differ significantly from the modern era. The prefix “post” is ambiguous to the extent that it has temporal and philosophical meanings, signifying both a movement after and rejection of modern movements in theory and the arts. We also need to distinguish among “postmodernism,” a critical movement within theory and the arts; “postmodern theory,” a theoretical development within philosophy and social theory that breaks from core tenets of modern theory; and “postmodernity,” a term that implies a larger, more systematic claim that we are in a new historical era (see Featherstone 1988; Best and Kellner 1991).
As Marx saw, the Enlightenment produced abstract philosophy in Germany, but fomented revolution in France. ” Not all modern social theorists, for example, adhered to a positivist program or a realist epistemology. , Comte and Spencer) that uncritically champions science and rationality, produces overly totalizing theories, seeks purely objective “facts” and knowledge, posits an essentialist model of the subject, and formulates elitist political programs. One needs to keep in mind that the first substantive critiques of the Enlightenment and modern social theory came from within the modern tradition itself, from both its conservative and its progressive wings.