Bereft of reason : on the decline of social thought and prospects for its renewal

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Bereft of reason : on the decline of social thought and prospects for its renewal

Eugene Halton

University of Chicago Press, 1995

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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ISBN 9780226314617

内容説明

In this critique of contemporary social theory, Eugene Halton argues that both modernism and postmodernism are damaged philosophies whose acceptance of the myths of the mind/body dichotomy make them incapable of solving our social dilemmas. Claiming that human beings should be understood as far more than simply a form of knowledge, social construction or contingent difference, Halton argues that contemporary thought has lost touch with the spontaneous passions - or enchantment - of life. Exploring neglected works in 20th-century social thought and philosophy - particularly the writings of Lewis Mumford and Charles Peirce - as well as the work of contemporary writers such as Vaclav Havel, Maya Angelou, Milan Kundera, Doris Lessing and Victor Turner, Halton argues that reason is dependent upon non-rational forces - including sentiment, instinct, conjecture, imagination and experience. We must, he argues, frame our questions in a way which encompasses both enchantment and critical reason, and he offers an outline here for doing so.

目次

1: The Codification of Social Theory 2: Of Life and Social Thought 3: The Cultic Roots of Culture 4: Lewis Mumford's Organic Worldview 5: The Transilluminated Vision of Charles Peirce 6: Jurgen Habermas's Theory of Communicative Etherealization 7: The Neopragmatic Acquiescence: Between Habermas and Rorty 8: The Modern Error and the Renewal of Social Thought Notes Acknowledgments Index
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: pbk ISBN 9780226314624

内容説明

In this critique of contemporary social theory, Eugene Halton argues that both modernism and postmodernism are damaged philosophies whose acceptance of the myths of the mind/body dichotomy make them incapable of solving our social dilemmas. Claiming that human beings should be understood as far more than simply a form of knowledge, social construction or contingent difference, Halton argues that contemporary thought has lost touch with the spontaneous passions - or enchantment - of life. Exploring neglected works in 20th-century social thought and philosophy - particularly the writings of Lewis Mumford and Charles Peirce - as well as the work of contemporary writers such as Vaclav Havel, Maya Angelou, Milan Kundera, Doris Lessing and Victor Turner, Halton argues that reason is dependent upon non-rational forces - including sentiment, instinct, conjecture, imagination and experience. We must, he argues, frame our questions in a way which encompasses both enchantment and critical reason, and he offers an outline here for doing so.

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