Beyond Objectivism and Relativism
Title | Beyond Objectivism and Relativism PDF eBook |
Author | Richard J. Bernstein |
Publisher | University of Pennsylvania Press |
Pages | 310 |
Release | 2011-09-16 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0812205502 |
Drawing freely and expertly from Continental and analytic traditions, Richard Bernstein examines a number of debates and controversies exemplified in the works of Gadamer, Habermas, Rorty, and Arendt. He argues that a "new conversation" is emerging about human rationality—a new understanding that emphasizes its practical character and has important ramifications both for thought and action.
Beyond Epistemology
Title | Beyond Epistemology PDF eBook |
Author | Sharyn Clough |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Pages | 182 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780742514652 |
Feminist thinkers have been critically examining science for over a century; but who critiques the criticism?
Beyond Objectivism and Relativism
Title | Beyond Objectivism and Relativism PDF eBook |
Author | Richard J. Bernstein |
Publisher | |
Pages | 284 |
Release | 1983 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9780812279061 |
Drawing freely and expertly from Continental and analytic traditions, Richard Bernstein examines a number of debates and controversies exemplified in the works of Gadamer, Habermas, Rorty, and Arendt. He argues that a new conversation is emerging about human rationality-a new understanding that emphasizes its practical character and has important ramifications both for thought and action.
Beyond Objectivism and Relativism
Title | Beyond Objectivism and Relativism PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Bernstein |
Publisher | University of Pennsylvania Press |
Pages | 314 |
Release | 1983 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9780812211658 |
Drawing freely and expertly from Continental and analytic traditions, Richard Bernstein examines a number of debates and controversies exemplified in the works of Gadamer, Habermas, Rorty, and Arendt. He argues that a "new conversation" is emerging about human rationality—a new understanding that emphasizes its practical character and has important ramifications both for thought and action.
Praxis and Action
Title | Praxis and Action PDF eBook |
Author | Richard J. Bernstein |
Publisher | University of Pennsylvania Press |
Pages | 370 |
Release | 2011-06-03 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0812205499 |
From the Introduction: This inquiry is concerned with the themes of praxis and action in four philosophic movements: Marxism, existentialism, pragmatism, and analytic philosophy. It is rare that these four movements are considered in a single inquiry, for there are profound differences of emphasis, focus, terminology, and approach represented by these styles of thought. Many philosophers believe that similarities among these movements are superficial and that a close examination of them will reveal only hopelessly unbridgeable cleavages. While respecting the genuine fundamental differences of these movements, this inquiry is undertaken in the spirit of showing that there are important common themes and motifs in what first appears to be a chaotic babble of voices. I intend to show that the concern with man as an agent has been a primary focal point of each of these movements and further that each contributes something permanent and important to our understanding of the nature and context of human activity.
Hermeneutics and Praxis
Title | Hermeneutics and Praxis PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Hollinger |
Publisher | University of Notre Dame Press |
Pages | 328 |
Release | 1985 |
Genre | Hermeneutics |
ISBN |
Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth: Volume 1
Title | Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth: Volume 1 PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Rorty |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 244 |
Release | 1990-11-30 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1139935763 |
Richard Rorty's collected papers, written during the 1980s and now published in two volumes, take up some of the issues which divide Anglo-Saxon analytic philosophers and contemporary French and German philosophers and offer something of a compromise - agreeing with the latter in their criticisms of traditional notions of truth and objectivity, but disagreeing with them over the political implications they draw from dropping traditional philosophical doctrines. In this volume Rorty offers a Deweyan account of objectivity as intersubjectivity, one that drops claims about universal validity and instead focuses on utility for the purposes of a community. The sense in which the natural sciences are exemplary for inquiry is explicated in terms of the moral virtues of scientific communities rather than in terms of a special scientific method. The volume concludes with reflections on the relation of social democratic politics to philosophy.