INI201H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Peter Sloterdijk, Michel Foucault, Instrumental And Value Rationality
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The tools of instrumental rationality are being used to develop the pernicious culture industry, a media machine that turns people into complacent idiots who are seduced into relinquishing their autonomy. Kant"s notion of reason does not stand up to scrutiny. The kantian project seems to think of history as a teleological (i. e. to believe (and it would be an act of faith, not reason) that history is driving towards perfection. Enlightenment is not so much a triumphant moment as an endless process of self-interrogation of the individual and civili. We are obligated to (re)invent ourselves by taking an active attitude towards our lives, constantly cultivating new habits a. This is how we extricate ourselves from self-imposed passivity. No one definition will ever pin rhetoric down. As aristotle insisted . rhetoric has no specific territory or subject mat. Sometimes it was even placed at the top of the arts, as a monarch supervising all or most inquiry.
