Double Dialectics: Between Universalism and Relativism in Enlightment and Postmodern Thought

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Rowman & Littlefield, 2002 - Всего страниц: 169
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
Bibliography
157
Index
163
About the Author
169
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Claudia Moscovici is assistant professor in the Division of Humanities and Rhetoric at Boston University, and author of Gender and Citizenship (Rowman & Littlefield, 2000) and From Sex Objects to Sexual Subjects (Routledge, 1996).

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