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A discourse on disenchantment : reflections on politics and technology / Gilbert G. Germain.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: SUNY series in political theory. Contemporary issues.Publication details: Albany : State University of New York Press, ©1993.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 187 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0585057435
  • 9780585057439
  • 1438403968
  • 9781438403960
Other title:
  • Disenchantment
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Discourse on disenchantment.DDC classification:
  • 320/.01 20
LOC classification:
  • JA80 .G47 1993eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Part 1: The outward journey -- I. The setting -- The turn toward epistemology -- Positivism and anti-positivism -- The Nietzshean critique -- II. The disenchantment thesis -- The weberian synthesis -- The disenchantment of nature -- The disenchantment of the world -- Lukács and instrumental rationality -- Systems theory -- Part 2: The journey home -- III. Modernity vindicated -- Blumenberg and the legitimacy of modernity -- Habermas: early works -- Habermas: the theory of communicative action -- Summary and conclusion -- IV. Modernity reconsidered -- Habermas appraised -- Adorno revisited -- Merleau-Ponty: from perception to ontology -- V. Embodied politics -- The problem with 'politics' -- Embodied politics.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-182) and indexes.

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Part 1: The outward journey -- I. The setting -- The turn toward epistemology -- Positivism and anti-positivism -- The Nietzshean critique -- II. The disenchantment thesis -- The weberian synthesis -- The disenchantment of nature -- The disenchantment of the world -- Lukács and instrumental rationality -- Systems theory -- Part 2: The journey home -- III. Modernity vindicated -- Blumenberg and the legitimacy of modernity -- Habermas: early works -- Habermas: the theory of communicative action -- Summary and conclusion -- IV. Modernity reconsidered -- Habermas appraised -- Adorno revisited -- Merleau-Ponty: from perception to ontology -- V. Embodied politics -- The problem with 'politics' -- Embodied politics.

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