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The Limits of Scientific Reason: Habermas, Foucault, and Science as a Social Institution
The Limits of Scientific Reason: Habermas, Foucault, and Science as a Social Institution
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The book explores the effects of scientific reason on society, showing how it permeates shared human consciousness and restructures relations between persons, discourses, institutions, and power. It argues for a non-reductive, liberal scientific naturalism that sees science as one form of rationality amongst others, opening possibilities for thought and action beyond scientific knowledge. It also addresses the narrowing of freedom by the instrumental modes of thinking that accompany scientific and technological change and raises the question of the good life and the question of a philosophical critique both directed towards science and shaped by it.
Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 300 pages
Publication date: 11 April 2024
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Two of the most influential figures in 20th-century continental philosophy, Habermas and Foucault, are the focus of this book, which examines the impact of scientific reason on society. It explores how science permeates shared human consciousness, producing effects that reshape relations between individuals, discourses, institutions, and power in ways that are often unconscious. The book argues for a non-reductive, liberal scientific naturalism that sees science as one form of rationality among others, opening up possibilities for thought and action beyond scientific knowledge. It also addresses the narrowing of freedom by the instrumental modes of thinking that accompany scientific and technological change, raising the question of the good life and the question of a philosophical critique directed towards science. By analysing the works of Foucault and Habermas in terms of their social, political, and historical contexts, the book reveals the two thinkers as linked by a commitment to the Enlightenment tradition and its emancipatory telos. The significant differences between the two are seen to result from Foucault's radicalization of this tradition, which is implicit within the Enlightenment project itself.
Weight: 467g
Dimension: 228 x 150 x 22 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781538157800
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