Aspects of enlightenment : social theory and the ethics of truth /

This is a timely, distinctive and sparkling introductory account of social theory and the central role of enlightenment within it. Osborne argues that social theory should be based on an idea of enlightenment rather than modernity.

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
المؤلف الرئيسي: Osborne, Thomas, 1964-
التنسيق: Licensed eBooks
اللغة:الإنجليزية
منشور في: London : UCL Press, 1998.
الوصول للمادة أونلاين:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=140805
جدول المحتويات:
  • Chapter Introduction Of enlightenmentality
  • chapter 1 Reason, truth and criticism
  • chapter 2 Aspects of scientific enlightenment
  • chapter 3 Aspects of therapeutic enlightenment
  • chapter 4 Aspects of aesthetic enlightenment
  • chapter 5 Questioning enlightenment: ethics of truth in Foucault and Weber
  • chapter 6 Agents of enlightenment: in praise of intellectuals.