02023cam a2200265 a 4500 466248 BD-DhUL 20160403171205.0 940228s1995 enka b 00100 eng 0415116864 hardback 0415116872 paperback ANL eng WCX BD-DhUL BD-DhUL 303.4 20 ONP O'Neill, John, 1933 The poverty of postmodernism / John O'Neill. London ; New York : Routledge, 1995. 205 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. GBP 12.99 Social futures Includes bibliographical references and index. In this book John O'Neill examines the postmodern turn in the social sciences. He rejects the current celebration of knowledge and value relativism on the grounds that it renders critical reason and common sense incapable of resisting the superficial ideologies of minoritarianism that leave the hard core of global capitalism unanalysed. From a phenomenological standpoint (Husserl, Merleau-Ponty, Schutz, Winch), O'Neill challenges Lyotard's post-traditionalist reading of Wittgenstein and Habermas in order to defend commonsense reason and values that are constitutive of the everyday life-world. In addition he argues from the standpoint of Vico and Marx on the civil history of embodied mind that the post-rationalist celebration of the arts of superficiality undermines the recognition of the cultural debt each generation owes to past and post-generations. In a positive way O'Neill develops an account of the historical vocation of reason and of the charitable accountability of science to commonsense that is necessary to sustain the basic institutions of civic democracy. This book will be of interest to anyone concerned to understand the continuing relevance of Marx, Weber, Husserl and Schutz to the debates around Wittgenstein, Lyotard, Foucault and Jameson. Postmodernism Social aspects. ddc BK 52246 52246 0 0 ddc 0 303_400000000000000_ONP 0 NFIC 86998 DUL DUL GEN 1996-08-05 Purchased 303.4 ONP 359360 2016-04-03 2 2016-04-03 BK