Voir et connaître la société

Regarder à distance dans les Lumières écossaises

Seeing and Knowing the Society

Observing at Distance during the Scottish Enlightenment

This study rewrites part of history prior to the constitution of knowledge in the human sciences. It focuses on how to build the subject-object relationship and make society a "nature" which surrounds us and which we can observe from a distance. In what way did such an extraction of the knowing subject from society become conceivable in the 18th century?

To operate, however, this “distance” had to avoid two pitfalls: the psychological identification of the knowing subject with the inner figure of subjectivity - criticism of introspection-, and the metaphysical identification of the knowing subject with God - criticism from a certain rationalist and constructivist point of view.

Starting from a comparative study of modern and critical empiricism in 18th-century England and Scotland, the author reports on the new ontological, epistemological and methodological requirements on which such a remote vision depends.

Title Voir et connaître la société

Subtitle Regarder à distance dans les Lumières écossaises

Edition First Edition

Author Claude Gautier

Collection La croisée des chemins

ISSN 17658128

Publisher ENS Éditions

BISAC Subject Heading PHI000000 PHILOSOPHY
PHI004000 PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology
PHI005000 PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy
PHI013000 PHILOSOPHY / Metaphysics
HIS037050 HISTORY / Modern / 18th Century

BIC Subject Heading J Society & social sciences
HP Philosophy
HPK Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge
HPJ Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology

Dewey (abridged) 100 Philosophy
110 Metaphysics
152 Perception, movement, emotions, drives
150 Psychology
101 Theory of philosophy

Audience 06 Professional and scholarly

CLIL (Version 2013-2019) 3080 SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES

Title First Published 23 January 2020

ONIX Adult Audience Rating 01 Any adult audience

Format Paperback

Product Detail 1

ISBN-13 979-10-362-0155-4

GTIN13 (EAN13) 9791036201554

Publication Date 23 January 2020

Publication Lyon, France

Main content page count 404

Absolute page count 404

Dimensions 14 x 21.5 cm

List Price 34.00 €

Onix Version 2.1 , Version 3

Claude Gautier
lien IdRef

: 111094747

Claude Gautier, Emmanuel Renault

Astérion, n°27/2022

Critique et sciences sociales
Critique and social sciences

In light of heated recent debates about neutrality and scientificity in social sciences, this issue seizes the opportunity to reconsider the terms of epistemological and political arguments concerning the relationships between critique and social sciences.

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