By Gillian Rose
A radical new review of Hegel revealing the issues and boundaries of sociological method.
Gillian Rose is one of the 20th century’s most crucial social philosophers. In maybe her most important paintings, Hegel Contra Sociology, Rose mounts a forceful defence of Hegelian speculative proposal. Demonstrating how, in his criticisms of Kant and Fichte, Hegel provides a preemptive critique of Weber, Durkheim, and the entire sociological traditions that stem from those “neo-Kantian” thinkers, Rose argues that any try to safeguard Marxism from an analogous critique and any try to renew sociology can't prevail with out coming to phrases with Hegel’s personal speculative discourse. With an research of Hegel’s mature works in gentle of his early radical writings, this ebook represents a profound step towards enacting simply this sort of go back to the Hegelian.
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The difference between these two versions of neo-Fichteanism might be expressed in the following terms. The non-Marxist versions give primacy to theoretical reason, and thus remain, illogically, at the stage of the first part of Fichte's Wissenschaftslehre; while the neo-Marxists give primacy to practical reason over theoretical reason, following Fichte's argument to the final part of the Wissenschaftslehre. This is another way of contrasting 'the cognitive paradigm'192 and neo-Marxism. A NOTE ON A L T H U S S E R 37 A Note on Althusser Althusser's notion of an 'epistemological break' between Marx's early 'humanist' writings and his later 'scientific' writings has introduced a confusion of terminology and ideas into recent debate and obscured the logical structure of Althusser's own thought.
These social forms do not have any ultimate validity, and the appearance of eternal or underivable validity is unmasked as an illusion. 145 Social forms are valid when viewed from the standpoint of their mediation by the totality, but not when viewed in isolation from the total process. Lukács turned Geltungslogik and its objectifications, the logic NEO-KANTIAN MARXIS M 2 9 of constitutive principles, away from a logic of identity in the direction of a theory of historical mediation. The advantage of this approach was that Lukács opened up new areas of social life to Marxist analysis and critique.
In this case, 'metacritique' and 'sociology of knowledge' mean the same thing. For the categories or knowledge are derived from a social precondition, and this produces a sociology of knowledge. The sociology of knowledge is one kind of metacritical argument. As a result, the sociology of knowledge has been understood as a special branch of sociological method, although it developed as a metacritique of neo-Kantian methodologism. However, some versions of the sociology of knowledge produced critical theories of capitalism within the anti-Marxist and anti-Hegelian metacritical circle.