Truth and Social Science: From Hegel to Deconstruction
This exciting and accessible guide to the discussions of truth in the social sciences can also be read as an account of the collapse of modernity, and the rise of new forms of thought which treat difference and ambivalence as positive values.\ Ross Abbinnett traces the debate on truth from the 'objectifying powers' of Kant through more than 200 years of critique and reformulation to the unravelling of truth by Lyotard, Foucault and Derrida.
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This exciting and accessible guide to the discussions of truth in the social sciences can also be read as an account of the collapse of modernity, and the rise of new forms of thought which treat difference and ambivalence as positive values. Ross Abbinnett traces the debate on truth from the 'objectifying powers' of Kant through more than 200 years of critique and reformulation to the unravelling of truth by Lyotard, Foucault and Derrida.
IntroductionIDEALISM AND SOCIAL THOUGHTTHE RATIONAL AND THE SOCIALKant and the Origins of Social ScienceHegel's Concept of Rational LifeSpeculative Thought and ModernityTHE STRUCTURAL ORGANISATION OF TRUTHStructure, Functions and SystemsMarx's Critique of CapitalThe Powers of TotalityTHE IDEALISM OF AUTONOMYWeber and the Concept of Social ActionHabermas and the Ethics of CommunicationPOSTSTRUCTURALISM AND THE VIOLENCE OF TRUTHFoucault and the Modern Domains of PowerLyotard and the Community of JudgementViolence, Rationality and CommunityTRUTH AND MODERNITYMarx and Weber Utopic and Dystopic EndsCommunity, Modernity and Speculative JudgementHegel, Derrida and the Metaphysics of RaceBibliographyIndex
