The poverty of postmodernism / John O'Neill.

An articulate and passionate argument against the postmodern/postraditionalist abandonment of Marxist and phenomenological concepts of reason and commonsense. This is a major and accessible contribution to the debate on postmodernity.

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: O'Neill, John, 1933-2022
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 1994.
Series:Routledge social futures series.
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Table of Contents:
  • Book Cover; Title; Contents; Figures and tables; Acknowledgements; Introduction: the two politics of knowledge; alterity and mutuality; Postmodernism and (post) Marxism; The therapeutic disciplines: from Parsons to Foucault; The disciplinary society: from Weber to Foucault; The phenomenological concept of modern knowledge and the Utopian method of Marxist economics; Orphic Marxism; 'Posting' modernity: Bell and Jameson on the social bond; with an allegory of the body politic; On the regulative idea of a critical social science; Mutual knowledge.