Book Cover; Title; Contents; Figures and tables; Acknowledgements; Introduction: the two politics of knowledge; alterity and mutuality; Postmodernism and (post) Marxism; The therapeutic disciplines: from Parsons to Foucault; The disciplinary society: from Weber to Foucault; The phenomenological concept of modern knowledge and the Utopian method of Marxist economics; Orphic Marxism; 'Posting' modernity: Bell and Jameson on the social bond; with an allegory of the body politic; On the regulative idea of a critical social science; Mutual knowledge
Summary
An articulate and passionate argument against the postmodern/postraditionalist abandonment of Marxist and phenomenological concepts of reason and commonsense. This is a major and accessible contribution to the debate on postmodernity
