Critical Theory After the Rise of the Global South: Kaleidoscopic Dialectic: 5 (Routledge Studies in Emerging Societies) - Hardcover

Rehbein, Boike

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1138857068 ISBN 13: 9781138857063

Publisher: Routledge, 2015

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

Boike Rehbein is Full Professor of Society and Transformation in Asia and Africa at Humboldt-Universität, Berlin, Germany.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1138857068
• ISBN 13: 9781138857063
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 164