The Poverty of Postmodernism

By: John O'Neill

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Paperback | 20 October 1994 | Edition Number 1

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The Poverty of Postmodernism rejects the current celebration of knowledge and value relativism 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 reaidng 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. This book will be of interest to anyone concerned to understand the continuing relevance of Marx, Weber, Husserl and Schutz to thedebates around Wittgenstein, Lyotard, Foucault and Jameson John O'Neill is Disitnguished Research Professor of Sociology, York University, Toronto

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"John O'Neill's "The Poverty of Postmodernism is a powerful and impassioned book that seeks to undermine the postmodern approach to knowledge and culture through a critical encounter with phenomenologically informed Marxism." -"Contemporary Socioligy

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Acknowledgements	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
The Politics of Disciplinary Knowledge	p. 11
Postmodernism and (Post) Marxism	p. 13
The Therapeutic Disciplines	p. 25
The Disciplinary Society	p. 43
References	p. 60
The Phenomenological Concept of Modern Knowledge and the Utopian Method of Marxist Economics	p. 64
Orphic Marxism	p. 94
The Politics of Mutual Knowledge	p. 109
'Posting' Modernity	p. 111
On the Regulative Idea of a Critical Social Science	p. 131
Mutual Knowledge	p. 157
The Mutuality of Science and Common Sense	p. 177
Conclusion	p. 191
Index	p. 201
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