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Truth and Social Science
From Hegel to Deconstruction

First Edition


January 1998 | 208 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd
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.

 
Introduction
 
IDEALISM AND SOCIAL THOUGHT
 
THE RATIONAL AND THE SOCIAL
 
Kant and the Origins of Social Science
 
Hegel's Concept of Rational Life
 
Speculative Thought and Modernity
 
THE STRUCTURAL ORGANISATION OF TRUTH
 
Structure, Functions and Systems
 
Marx's Critique of Capital
 
The Powers of Totality
 
THE IDEALISM OF AUTONOMY
 
Weber and the Concept of Social Action
 
Habermas and the Ethics of Communication
 
POSTSTRUCTURALISM AND THE VIOLENCE OF TRUTH
 
Foucault and the Modern Domains of Power
 
Lyotard and the Community of Judgement
 
Violence, Rationality and Community
 
TRUTH AND MODERNITY
 
Marx and Weber
Utopic and Dystopic Ends

 
 
Community, Modernity and Speculative Judgement
 
Hegel, Derrida and the Metaphysics of Race
 
Bibliography
 
Index