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The Poverty of Postmodernism by John O'Neill is a philosophy book available to read on EtoBox.
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The Poverty of Postmodernism rejects the current celebration of knowledge and value relativism. This is on the grounds that it renders critical reason and commonsense incapable of resisting the superifical ideologies of minoritarianism that leave the hard core of global capitalism unanalyzed. In this book John O'Neill examines the postmodern turn in the social sciences. From a phenomenological standpoint (Husserl, Merleau Ponty, Schutz, Winch), he challenges Lyotard's postrationalist reading of
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It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- John O'Neill
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Published
- 2002
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781134817962
- Category
- philosophy
- Subjects
- Sociology, History, Science
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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