PHL100Y1 Lecture Notes - Performativity, Metanarrative, Productive Forces
Document Summary
Argued that pretty much all this course is subject to pragmatic conditions. You can look at the pragmatic terms in which these statements are appropriate. There does not seem to be anything special in the language games of science. The modernist metanarratives (enlightenment and marxist theory) have lost their credibility. Describes the nature of the crisis (de legitimacy) 1 path there is a tendency to go and we will go that way unless something is done. Other path is he recommends is to what he describes as the search for instability. Crisis is a very special kind of crisis and brought on by modernism. The old metanarratives carried the seeds of their own destruction. We make progress by clearly identifying problems. Science was the glory bringer for the enlightenment. Marxist idea, what happens in social formation what happens is society organizes itself that they strengthen the productive forces that they become so strong that there is revolution.
