Double Dialectics: Between Universalism and Relativism in Enlightenment and Postmodern ThoughtBloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2002 - 169 ページ Double Dialectics uses a dialectical method of reading to show the resonance between Enlightenment and postmodern speculations about the nature of knowledge and ethics. Further, it offers a possible answer to the question of which Enlightenment values are worth preserving. The book argues that Enlightenment philosophy has something to add to the contemporary thinking that appears to subvert it. Rather than reading this philosophy as an observance of a single dialectical process that eliminates all sources of doubt,Double Dialectics shows that different kinds of Enlightenment discourse chart a nuanced path that mediates between relativism and objectivism, offering creative avenues of thought for contemporary ethical and epistemological problems. |
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Between Universalism and Relativism Philosophizing Common Sense | 1 |
The Postmodern Need for a Philosophy of Common Sense Lyotards The Postmodern Condition and The Differend | 13 |
Dialectical Deduction A Reading of Kants Critique of Pure Reason | 29 |
Beyond the Particular and the Universal DAlemberts Discours preliminaire to the Encyclopedia | 51 |
An Ethics of Cultural Exchange Diderots Supplement au Voyage de Bougainville | 75 |
Hybridity and Ethics in Chateaubriands Atala | 93 |
The Dialectical Process of Decolonialization Fanons The Wretched of the Earth | 113 |
The Problem of Cultural Relativism Saids Orientalism and The World the Text and the Critic | 129 |
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About the Author | 169 |
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