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Social Science and the Challenge of Relativism. Vol. 2 Claims of Knowledge : On the Labor of Making Found Worlds Social Science and the Challenge of Relativism ; Vol. 2
author
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Hazelrigg, Lawrence E.
publisher
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University Press of Florida
isbn10 | asin
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0813008905
print isbn13
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9780813008905
ebook isbn13
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9780813019727
language
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English
subject
Social sciences, Relativity.
publication date
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1988
lcc
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H91.H42 1988eb
ddc
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300
subject
:
Social sciences, Relativity.
Page i
Social Science and the Challenge of Relativism: Volume 2
Volume 1. A Wilderness of Mirrors: On Practices of Theory in a Gray Age Volume 2. Claims of Knowledge: On the Labor of Making Found Worlds Volume 3. Cultures of Nature
Page iii
Social Science and the Challenge of Relativism: Volume 2
Claims of Knowledge On the Labor of Making Found Worlds
Lawrence Hazelrigg
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Disclaimer: This book is part of a volume set. netLibrary may or may not have all the companion volumes in eBook format.
University Presses of Florida The Florida State University Press 1989 by the Board of Regents of the State of Florida Printed in the U.S.A. on acid-free paper.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Hazelrigg, Lawrence E. Social science and the challenge of relativism. Includes bibliographies and indexes. Contents: v. 1. A wilderness of mirrors v. 2. Claims of knowledge. 1. Social sciences. 2. Relativity. I. Title. H91.H42 1988 300 88-19132 ISBN 0-8130-0917-0 (set: alk. paper) ISBN 0-8130-0890-5 (vol. 2)
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Page v
CONTENTS
Reflections of/in/on Claims of Knowledge
1
Part 1. On the Rains of Heaven
1. The Discovery of Knowledge and Knowledge of Discovery
7
2. The Separation of Episteme* and Techne*
26
3. The Practical, the Ethical, the Aesthetic
44
4. Special Language and the Ways of Mandarinism
70
Part 2. On the Production of Knowledge
5. Quests for Certainty and the Regal Object
121
6. The Charity of Relativism
147
7. Object and Interpretation
170
8. Subject-Object Relations
221
9. The Question of Agency
255
References
285
Index
309
Page vii
The nihilistic question "for what?" is rooted in the old habit of supposing that the goal must be put up, given, demanded from outsideby some superhuman authority. Having unlearned faith in that, one still follows the old habit and seeks another authority that can speak unconditionally and command goals and tasks.... One wants to get around the will, the willing of a goal, the risk of positing a goal for oneself; one wants to rid oneself of the responsibility (one would accept fatalism). Nietzsche, 1901
The social revolution... cannot draw its poetry from the past, but only from [a] future. Marx, 1852
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REFLECTIONS OF/IN/ON CLAIMS OF KNOWLEDGE
In the beginning was the tree, and the tree was both cellulose and word. Or so it must seem in our habituations of arborescent imagery. Rooted "in the world," we are accustomed to imagine it as a world "out there," a region of externalities, over which we seek sway in transcendence of the rooting substance; and, coming upon any matter-of-fact appearance of "the transcendent," we are more often than not inclined to proper obeisance, in an attitude (transcendental subjects that we imagine we are) either of optimism or of pessimism for "
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