Critical Theory After The Rise Of The Global South: Kaleidoscopic Dialectic (routledge Studies In Emerging Societies)
by Boike Rehbein /
2015 / English / PDF
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After the end of Euro-American hegemony and the return of the
multi-centric world, Eurocentrism in philosophy and the social
sciences has come under attack. However, no real alternative has
been proposed. This provides an opportunity to reassess the
philosophy of the social sciences that has been developed in the
West. This book argues that the re-emergence of a multi-centric
world allows the Euro-centric social sciences in general, and
critical theory in particular, to finally disengage from
countless paradoxes and impasses by which they have heretofore
been hindered. The author presents a solution in the form of the
"kaleidoscopic dialectic." This dialectic is unique in that it is
able to overcome the precarious dichotomy between universalism
and relativism by relying on an original approach to the
philosophy of science. With this approach, the focus is on the
configurations embedded in the ethics of understanding,
accommodation and learning and on their connections to broader
social scientific critique. This book demands that the European
social sciences make philosophical and methodological adaptations
to the new realities of the social world by becoming more
reflexive and, by extension, less Euro-centric.
After the end of Euro-American hegemony and the return of the
multi-centric world, Eurocentrism in philosophy and the social
sciences has come under attack. However, no real alternative has
been proposed. This provides an opportunity to reassess the
philosophy of the social sciences that has been developed in the
West. This book argues that the re-emergence of a multi-centric
world allows the Euro-centric social sciences in general, and
critical theory in particular, to finally disengage from
countless paradoxes and impasses by which they have heretofore
been hindered. The author presents a solution in the form of the
"kaleidoscopic dialectic." This dialectic is unique in that it is
able to overcome the precarious dichotomy between universalism
and relativism by relying on an original approach to the
philosophy of science. With this approach, the focus is on the
configurations embedded in the ethics of understanding,
accommodation and learning and on their connections to broader
social scientific critique. This book demands that the European
social sciences make philosophical and methodological adaptations
to the new realities of the social world by becoming more
reflexive and, by extension, less Euro-centric.