Aspects of enlightenment : social theory and the ethics of truth

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Title:

Author:

Osborne, Thomas, 1964-

ISBN:

9781857288520

9781857288537

9780847690770

9780847690787

Personal Author:

Osborne, Thomas, 1964-

Publication Information:

London : UCL Press, 1998.

Physical Description:

xv, 216 p. ; 24 cm.

Contents:

Introduction: Of enlightenmentality -- 1. Reason, truth and criticism -- 2. Aspects of scientific enlightenment -- 3. Aspects of therapeutic enlightenment -- 4. Aspects of aesthetic enlightenment -- 5. Questioning enlightenment: ethics of truth in Foucault and Weber -- 6. Agents of enlightenment: in praise of intellectuals -- Conclusion: Social theory, sociology and the ethics of criticism.

Subject Term:

Social sciences -- Philosophy.

Enlightenment.

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This is an introductory account of social theory and the central role of enlightenment within it. Tom Osborne argues that: contemporary social theory can only fail when viewed as a science of society, and rather than focusing upon the question of society or even modernity should focus on the question of human nature. The most immediate and central topic of such a social theory should be the question of enlightenment.