{"product_id":"the-limits-of-scientific-reason-habermas-foucault-and-science-as-a-social-institution-9781538157787","title":"The Limits of Scientific Reason: Habermas,","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCritically and comprehensively examining the works of Habermas and Foucault, two giants of 20th century continental philosophy, this book illuminates the effects of scientific reason as it migrates from its specialized institutions into society. It explores how science permeates shared human consciousness, to produce effects that ripple through the entire social body to restructure relations between discourses, institutions, and power in ways which we are barely conscious of. The book shows how science, through its entwinement with power, politics, discourses, and practices, presents certain social arrangements as natural and certain courses of action as beyond question. By arguing for a non-reductive, liberal scientific naturalism that sees science as one form of rationality amongst others, it opens possibilities for thought and action beyond scientific knowledge. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe book analyses the work of Foucault and Habermas in terms of their social, political, and historical contexts. It examines science in relation to society, power, and discourses and their shifting historical relations. But rather than withdrawing from normative dimensions by merely describing scientific practices within their contexts, McIntyre explicitly opens the normative question of the good life and the good society. He thus simultaneously raises the question of philosophy and how philosophical critique is both directed towards science and, at the same time, must accommodate it. Foucault and Habermas emerge as linked by a commitment to the Enlightenment tradition and its emancipatory telos which underlies their work. The significant differences between the two thinkers are seen to result from Foucault’s radicalization of this tradition, a radicalization which is, at the same time, implicit within the Enlightenment project itself. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER 1. Modernity’s Nagging Question\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eScience and Society \/ The Aim and Contents of this Book \/ Philosophy and Its Contexts \/ Habermas and Foucault: Lives and Motivations \/ Modernity Science and Philosophy \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER 2. Habermas’ Critique of Positivism \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHabermas’ Response to Positivism \/ Knowledge and Human Interests \/ Habermas’ Theoretical Partitions\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER 3. Science, Modernity and Communicative Action\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHabermas Linguistic Turn \/ Lifeworld, System and the Rationalisation of Society \/ The Diagnosis of Modernity \/ Insights and Aporias \/ Reinterpreting Habermas \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER 4. Science and Deliberative Democracy \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBetween Facts and Norms \/ Philosophy and Science \/ The Future of Human Nature. \/ Free Will and Determinism \/ Concluding Thoughts\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER 5. Foucault’s Archaeology of Scientific Knowledge\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFoucault’s Radicalisation of Critique \/ Madness \/ Archaeology and the History of Science \/ Order and The Sciences \/ Concluding Thoughts\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER 6. Science and Power\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom Archaeology to Genealogy \/ The Emergence and Dissemination of Modern \/ Power\/Knowledge \/ The Constitution of The Subject \/ The Natural Sciences \/ The Normalisation of Society \/ Bio-Power and Governmentality \/ Normative Confusions\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER 7. Science and the Genealogy of the Subject\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLater Foucault’s Broader Framework \/ Ethics, Aesthetics and Spirituality \/ The Genealogy of The Subject \/ Philosophy and Science after Kant\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER 8. Science, Philosophy and Modernity \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Reconcilability of Habermas and Foucault \/ Reflexivity and its Modern Radicalisation \/ Discovery and Self-Transformation \/ Normative Foundations and Confusions. \/ Wrapping up the debate \/ Concluding Reflections \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rowman \u0026 Littlefield","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041206567255,"sku":"9781538157787","price":91.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781538157787.jpg?v=1750949357","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-limits-of-scientific-reason-habermas-foucault-and-science-as-a-social-institution-9781538157787","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}