000			02047cam a2200289 i 4500
020			_a9781138857063 (hardback)
041	1		_aeng
082	0	0	_a303.482 _bBOI/C
100	1		_aBoike Rehbein
240	1	0	_aKaleidoskopische Dialektik
245	1	0	_aCritical theory after the rise of the global South: _bKaleidoscopic dialectic/ _cby Boike Rehbein
250			_a1st Edition.
260			_aLondon: _bRoutledge, _c2015.
300			_a163 pages ;
490	0		_aRoutledge studies in emerging societies ;
520			_a"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"--
650		0	_aCritical Theory
650		0	_aSocial Change
650		0	_aEurocentrism
650		0	_aDialectic
650		0	_aGlobalization
650		0	_aPhilosophy Modern
650		0	_aPhilosophy European
650		7	_aSocial Sciences
700			_aMichael Kinville (tr.)
942			_cBK
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