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Postmodernism and the search for enlightenment

Title
Postmodernism and the search for enlightenment / Karlis Racevskis.
Author
Racevskis, Karlis.
Publication
Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, 1993.

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Description
xii, 158 pages; 24 cm
Summary
Drawing largely on the work of Foucault, Racevskis elucidates the philosophical and political problems at issue in the debate and the changes taking place in our ways of seeing ourselves and our relations with others. He shows how the them of enlightenment has been a central component in the conflicts that pit modernists against postmodernists, Marxists against post-Marxists, and liberals against conservatives, and he juxtaposes the arguments in such a way as to place reason and enlightened action in a new perspective.
Subject
  • Postmodernism
  • Enlightenment
  • Humanities
  • Enlightenment (18th-century western movement)
  • Enlightenment
  • Humanities
  • Postmodernism
  • Postmoderne
  • Aufklärung
  • Postmodernisme
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 137-151) and index.
Contents
Introduction -- The politics of structuralist thought -- From the Cogito to the subject -- Between identity and the other: the subject of Michel Foucault -- Interpreting Foucault -- The postmodern critique of the Enlightenment -- Candide's garden revisited : the postmodern view -- The politics of a postmodern critique -- The battle over the humanities -- Conclusion.
ISBN
  • 081391471X
  • 9780813914718
LCCN
93007338
OCLC
  • ocm27770847
  • 27770847
  • SCSB-1998459
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library