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Exploring neglected works in 20th-century social thought and philosophy, as well as the work of contemporary writers, this book argues that thought must be framed in a way which encompasses both non-rational forces and critical reason, and it offers an outline here for doing so.

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1: The Codification of Social Theory 2: Of Life and Social Thought 3: The Cultic Roots of Culture 4: Lewis Mumford's Organic Worldview 5: The Transilluminated Vision of Charles Peirce 6: Jurgen Habermas's Theory of Communicative Etherealization 7: The Neopragmatic Acquiescence: Between Habermas and Rorty 8: The Modern Error and the Renewal of Social Thought Notes Acknowledgments Index

Bereft of Reason On the Decline of Social

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: 4/15/1995 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780226314617, 978-0226314617
      ISBN10: 0226314618
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      Cultural studies Western philosophy from c 1800

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Exploring neglected works in 20th-century social thought and philosophy, as well as the work of contemporary writers, this book argues that thought must be framed in a way which encompasses both non-rational forces and critical reason, and it offers an outline here for doing so.

      Table of Contents
      1: The Codification of Social Theory 2: Of Life and Social Thought 3: The Cultic Roots of Culture 4: Lewis Mumford's Organic Worldview 5: The Transilluminated Vision of Charles Peirce 6: Jurgen Habermas's Theory of Communicative Etherealization 7: The Neopragmatic Acquiescence: Between Habermas and Rorty 8: The Modern Error and the Renewal of Social Thought Notes Acknowledgments Index

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