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Rappa, Antonio. "A Critique of Modernity: On Positivism, and Phenomenology" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston Marriott Copley Place, Sheraton Boston & Hynes Convention Center, Boston, Massachusetts, Aug 28, 2002 <Not Available>. 2009-05-26 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p66560_index.html>

Rappa, A. L. , 2002-08-28 "A Critique of Modernity: On Positivism, and Phenomenology" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston Marriott Copley Place, Sheraton Boston & Hynes Convention Center, Boston, Massachusetts Online <.PDF>. 2009-05-26 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p66560_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Review Method: Peer Reviewed Abstract: Theoretical approaches to modernity (A.D. 1815 onwards) seem to suffer a twofold fate: (a) partial reconstructions of a "European past" presented as total reconstitutions of the "Global present"; and, (b) the belief that pre-modernity was dominated by a monolithic, intellectually hegemonic philosophy. While positivism characterizes much of the work of 19th century philosophers such as Kant, Comte, Hume, and Saint-Simon, it is generally accepted that Comte first used the word positivism in the place that the history of philosophy has ascribed to it, however, Kant appears to be more precise about philosophy's method, and therefore is used here to illustrate how modernity reaches backwards into Kantian deontological space: a transcendental space that arises out of a reliance on the human senses (as it leaves impresses in the human mind, Vorstellungen). Kant and Husserl, like Plato before them, assumed truth and value were discoverable within human beings. They were interested in the process and method of uncovering such truth and value, and how these equally modern qualities continue to be vigorously present in the positivist and phenomenological traditions. Briefly, positivism describes the nature of the scientific arrangements that were needed to discover knowledge; human beings became the center of the universe, and replaced religion as the focus of cosmological activity. At the center of Comte's arguments (that ran parallel to Kantian notions of time and space) was the search for proof and evidence: the primary logic for the excavation of knowledge. Phenomenology on the other hand did not view knowledge as a process of discovery as the positivists generally claimed. Rather, phenomenology emphasizes the creation of knowledge phenomena per se at historical points in time rather than a process of discovering knowledge as "fixed and immutable assets".

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