书名: Wittgenstein and the Idea of a Critical Social Theory: Giddens, Habermas and Bhaskar (Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought, 15)
作者: Nigel Pleasants (Author)
出版社: Routledge; 1 edition (September 17, 1999)
语言: English
ISBN-10: 0415189535
ISBN-13: 978-0415189538
Book Description
Wittgenstein is widely considered to be amongst the greatest of modern philosophers. He both revolutionised the subject of philosophy and made a profound impact on many disciplines across the spectrum of the humanities and the social sciences. In this book Nigel Pleasants examines Wittgenstein’s influence on, and implications for, contemporary social and political theory.
Pleasants focuses on the ‘critical social theory’ of Giddens, Habermas and Bhaskar —each one of whom has endeavoured to assimilate Wittgenstein’s philosophy to his own theoretical perspective. The distinctiveness of Pleasants’s approach lies in prioritising Wittgenstein’s rejection of philosophical theory and explanation. Pleasants draws upon Wittgenstein’s critique of traditional philosophy in order to attack the central ‘idea’ of critical social theory: that a ‘critical’ social or political theory requires a foundational theory of individual and social ‘ontology’. Pleasants argues that critical social theorists’ models of individual agency and subjectivity, and transcendental social rules, are both incoherent and irrelevant to social and political criticism.
This highly regarded work also contains detailed and critical analyses of the ideas of related social and political theorists such as Winch, Hayek, Garfinkel and Milgram. It will provide an important new perspective for researchers and students of social sciences in general, political science, philosophy, social and political theory, and sociologists.
Review
"Nigel Pleasants has written a brilliant book which calls into profound question both the radicalism and the genuine ‘criticality’ of ‘critical social theory’. Deploying a deeply original reading of Wittgenstein’s philosophy, Pleasants shows that the critical social theory of Giddens, Habermas and Bhaskar is, at bottom, a species of empty idealism which presupposes that reinterpreting the world ‘theoretically’ is,
in itself, a way of changing it." -- Gavin Kitching
About the Author
Nigel Pleasants is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Exeter.
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作者: Nigel Pleasants (Author)
出版社: Routledge; 1 edition (September 17, 1999)
语言: English
ISBN-10: 0415189535
ISBN-13: 978-0415189538
Book Description
Wittgenstein is widely considered to be amongst the greatest of modern philosophers. He both revolutionised the subject of philosophy and made a profound impact on many disciplines across the spectrum of the humanities and the social sciences. In this book Nigel Pleasants examines Wittgenstein’s influence on, and implications for, contemporary social and political theory.
Pleasants focuses on the ‘critical social theory’ of Giddens, Habermas and Bhaskar —each one of whom has endeavoured to assimilate Wittgenstein’s philosophy to his own theoretical perspective. The distinctiveness of Pleasants’s approach lies in prioritising Wittgenstein’s rejection of philosophical theory and explanation. Pleasants draws upon Wittgenstein’s critique of traditional philosophy in order to attack the central ‘idea’ of critical social theory: that a ‘critical’ social or political theory requires a foundational theory of individual and social ‘ontology’. Pleasants argues that critical social theorists’ models of individual agency and subjectivity, and transcendental social rules, are both incoherent and irrelevant to social and political criticism.
This highly regarded work also contains detailed and critical analyses of the ideas of related social and political theorists such as Winch, Hayek, Garfinkel and Milgram. It will provide an important new perspective for researchers and students of social sciences in general, political science, philosophy, social and political theory, and sociologists.
Review
"Nigel Pleasants has written a brilliant book which calls into profound question both the radicalism and the genuine ‘criticality’ of ‘critical social theory’. Deploying a deeply original reading of Wittgenstein’s philosophy, Pleasants shows that the critical social theory of Giddens, Habermas and Bhaskar is, at bottom, a species of empty idealism which presupposes that reinterpreting the world ‘theoretically’ is,
in itself, a way of changing it." -- Gavin Kitching
About the Author
Nigel Pleasants is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Exeter.
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