Truth and Social Science

Introduction/IDEALISM AND SOCIAL THOUGHT/THE RATIONAL AND THE SOCIAL/Kant and the Origins of Social Science/Hegel's Concept of Rational Life/Speculative Thought and Modernity/THE STRUCTURAL ORGANISATION OF TRUTH/Structure Functions and Systems/Marx's Critique of Capital/The Powers of Totality/THE IDEALISM OF AUTONOMY/Weber and the Concept of Social Action/Habermas and the Ethics of Communication/POSTSTRUCTURALISM AND THE VIOLENCE OF TRUTH/Foucault and the Modern Domains of Power/Lyotard and the Community of Judgement/Violence Rationality and Community/TRUTH AND MODERNITY/Marx and Weber/Utopic and Dystopic Ends/Community Modernity and Speculative Judgement/Hegel Derrida and the Metaphysics of Race/Bibliography/Index