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Discusses the evolution of criticism in recent decades & the reemergence of formerly subjugated forms of knowledge & meaning. The inhibiting effects of totalitarian, universal theories have been recognized, & autonomous, noncentralized, nontraditional criticism & theoretical production have gained increased legitimacy. These processes have coincided with & been facilitated by the resurrection of subjugated knowledges in two arenas: those discourses & meanings historically dismissed & buried by formalized systems, & sets of knowledge previously deemed inadequate or insufficient under the rhetoric of science. The postmodern genealogy of knowledge is characterized by the union of erudite knowledge & local memories in an attempt to elucidate, understood, & overcome historical struggles. This genealogy also represents on effort to utilize historically subjugated forms of meaning & knowledge to fight against the coercion & bias of theoretical, universal, formal, & scientific discourses. T. Sevier

First published in 1975, this collection of essays embodies a conception of sociological thought as a critical analysis of social theories and doctrines, of social institutions and political regimes, of recent social movements. They deal, in particular, with some conservative versions of sociology and with attempts to develop more radical theories; they extend the author's previous writings on classes, elites and politics; and they analyse some of the problems of socialism in the late twentieth century. There is a close unity of theme througout the book in its critical attempt to for.

- Wachstum der Produktivkräfte und Selbstverwaltung + Sammlung von Reden und Aufsätzen Kardeljs über Rolle und Bedeutung der Sozialwissenschaften, das Verhältnis von Wissenschaft und Praxis und den Gesellschaftskritizismus in Jugoslawien. Den Schwerpunkt bildet die ideologische Auseinandersetzung mit gesellschaftskritischen Stömungen und ihre theoretische Zuordnung. + - Arbeit und Forschung + - Revolutionäre Praxis und marxistische Erziehung + Behandelte Aspekte: + - Wissenschaft und Praxis

A review essay on a book by Charles Taylor, Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity (Cambridge, MA: Harvard U Press, 1989 [see IRPS No. 50/89c01206; also see listing in IRPS No. 88]). According to one model of social theory, the social theorist seeks to give as rich an account as possible of a society's own self-understanding or self-interpretation. The second model, by contrast, involves challenging the society's self-understanding on the basis of a radical vision of ultimate standards of judgment. Taylor claims that neither of these models should be privileged over the other; both are equiprimordial ways of theorizing social life. However, Taylor does privilege the first model in his own practice of social theory -- which can be summed up in the phrase, "the rhetoric of understanding.". 21 References. Adapted from the source document.