Reason, history, and politics : the communitarian grounds of legitimation in the modern age
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Reason, history, and politics : the communitarian grounds of legitimation in the modern age
（SUNY series in social and political thought）
State University of New York Press, c1995
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Reason, history, & politics
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Bibliography: p. 421-435
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Description
Reason, History, and Politics shows that certain conceptions of rationality in current theories of science, technology, and law can account for neither the legitimacy of paradigm shifts nor the communitarian integrity of rational decision and learning internal to paradigms generally. Ingram proposes an alternative conception of reality that does.
Drawing on a rich literature that encompasses classical German Idealism, pragmatism, poststructuralism, and hermeneutics, Ingram shows how a specific model of art criticism and aesthetic judgment illuminates the kind of discursive rationality found in all domains of rational undertaking. The book synthesizes debates in law, political science, philosophy of science and history, and social philosophy, and covers Anglo-American, French, and German schools of philosophy, discussing topics such as critical legal studies, the logic of scientific discovery and explanation, and subjectivity, hegemony, and totalitarianism.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments Introduction
Part I
1. Reason and Liberal Theory: A Communitarian Critique
2. Science and Technology as Practical Reason
Part II
3. Anglo-American Communitarianism and the Dilemmas of Social Critique
4. French Communitarianism and the Subjugation of Identity
Part III
5. Discourse Ethics and Democratic Legitimation
6. Discourse Ethics and Adjudication
Part IV
7. A Postmodern Legitimation of Community and Judgment
8. The Legitimacy of the Modern Age: Toward a Metaphorology of Revolution, Myth, and Progress in Science and Politics
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