What is involved with French theories, is less the rejection of the rationalist tradition than an interrogation of its key components: an independent, free-standing, knowing subject, the “I” facing an independent, free-standing world. A way of seeing things with an anti-humanist thinking...
The problem is how to get the “I” and the world together, how to bridge the gap that separated them ever since the older picture of a universe everywhere filled with the meanings God originates and guarantees had ceased to be compelling to many.
The solution to the problem in the rationalist tradition is to extend man’s reasoning powers in order to produce finer and finer descriptions of the world, descriptions whose precision can be enhanced by technological innovations (telescopes, microscopes, atom smashers, computers) that are themselves extensions of man’s rational capacities.
The vision is one of a steady progress with the final result to be a complete and accurate — down to the last detail — account of global processes.
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