The Limits of Scientific Reason: Habermas, Foucault, and Science as a Social Institution (Continental Philosophy in Austral-Asia)

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Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Abbreviations
	FOUCAULT
	HABERMAS
Preface
Chapter 1: Modernity’s Nagging Question
	SCIENCE AND SOCIETY
	THE AIM AND CONTENTS OF THE BOOK
	PHILOSOPHY AND ITS CONTEXTS
	HABERMAS AND FOUCAULT: LIVES AND MOTIVATIONS
	MODERNITY, SCIENCE, AND PHILOSOPHY
Chapter 2: Habermas’s Critique of Positivism
	HABERMAS’S RESPONSE TO POSITIVISM
	KNOWLEDGE AND HUMAN INTERESTS
	HABERMAS’S THEORETICAL PARTITIONS
Chapter 3: Science, Modernity, and Communicative Action
	HABERMAS’S LINGUISTIC TURN
	LIFEWORLD, SYSTEM, AND THE RATIONALISATION OF SOCIETY
	THE DIAGNOSIS OF MODERNITY
	INSIGHTS AND APORIAS
	REINTERPRETING HABERMAS
Chapter 4: Science and Deliberative Democracy
	BETWEEN FACTS AND NORMS
	PHILOSOPHY AND SCIENCE
	THE FUTURE OF HUMAN NATURE
	FREE WILL AND DETERMINISM
	CONCLUDING THOUGHTS
Chapter 5: Foucault’s Archaeology of Scientific Knowledge
	FOUCAULT’S RADICALISATION OF CRITIQUE
	MADNESS
	ARCHAEOLOGY AND THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE
	ORDER AND THE SCIENCES
	CONCLUDING THOUGHTS
Chapter 6: Science and Power
	FROM Archaeology TO GENEALOGY
	THE EMERGENCE AND DISSEMINATION OF MODERN POWER/KNOWLEDGE
	THE CONSTITUTION OF THE SUBJECT
	THE NATURAL SCIENCES
	THE NORMALISATION OF SOCIETY
	BIOPOWER AND GOVERNMENTALITY
	NORMATIVE CONFUSIONS
Chapter 7: Science and the Genealogy of the Subject
	FOUCAULT’S BROADER FRAMEWORK
	ETHICS, AESTHETICS, AND SPIRITUALITY
	THE GENEALOGY OF THE SUBJECT
	PHILOSOPHY AND SCIENCE AFTER KANT
Chapter 8: Science, Philosophy, and Modernity
	THE RECONCILABILITY OF HABERMAS AND FOUCAULT
	REFLEXIVITY AND ITS MODERN RADICALISATION
	DISCOVERY AND SELF-TRANSFORMATION
	NORMATIVE FOUNDATIONS AND CONFUSIONS
	WRAPPING UP THE DEBATE
	CONCLUDING REFLECTIONS
Bibliography
	Books by Foucault
	Foucault interviews, lectures, essays
	Foucault’s Lecture Courses at College de France
	Books by Habermas
	Habermas’ interviews, lectures, essays
	Literature Cited
Index
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