Diskursus tentang Modernitas Antara Jurgen Habermas dan Michel Foucault: Suatu Tinjauan Epistemologi Discourse of Modernity Between Jurgen Habermas and Michel Foucault: Perspective ofTpistemology
| Main Author: | Perpustakaan UGM, i-lib |
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| Format: | Article NonPeerReviewed |
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[Yogyakarta] : Universitas Gadjah Mada
, 2003
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https://repository.ugm.ac.id/19436/ http://i-lib.ugm.ac.id/jurnal/download.php?dataId=2266 |
Daftar Isi:
- In philosophy, critics towards modernism has even brighter ideas and thoughts, even the original ones. Among those who criticized modernism, there were two names grudgingly adored within the contemporary philosophical thinking, i.e. Michel Foucault and Jurgen Habermas. Both philosophers has been involved in a very smart discourse on their critics towards modernism. To Habermas, modernism is an unfinished project. Habermas still believed in the power of enlightenment ratio and what had to be replaced and criticized, namely, glitches on modernity itself. Those are when people were trapped into instrumentalist ratios, or subject centered reason. While Foucault totally attacked the subject ratio. Foucault denied any objective thinking ever existed. To Foucault, man could never outstep the limit of history and civilization, because man had not reached a peak to spread the infinite and universal knowledge. Habermas confirmed his thought upon the communicative ratio. Communicative ratio has an inter-subjective properties and is a negation upon ratio centered on subject. Communicative ratio assumes that concept of agreement or consensus is based on ratio, and the self-involvement into the communicative action. As to Focault, knowledge was never gained based on subject but rather on the relation between power and knowledge. The truth system was in the mutual relation with the power system. Power created knowledge. Power and knowledge yielded to each other. There was never any power without a relation to certain knowledge. Keywords: modernism -- subject centered reason � communicative ratio � consensus -- power/knowledge.