GS201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Negative Liberty, The Symbolic, Proletarian Revolution
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Gs201 lesson 8: social theory of michel foucault (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) Reason and science would dispel superstition and prejudice, and provide knowledge to build a better society. Social science emerged, characterized by unified theories of social order and progress. Saw the individual as the basis of social order, and individual freedom (political equality) as the fundamental basis for progress: classical and neoclassical liberalism = negative freedom, social justice liberalism = positive freedom. Sought social equality as the true basis for human emancipation: political equality of liberalism obscures deeper economic inequality, social relations of production of capitalism would give way to a proletarian revolution. Faith in reason = produce objective knowledge. Faith in progress = possibility of freedom. Weber is a liberal in many respects, but he . Gramsci is a marxist in many respects, but he .
