Philosophy and the Idea of Freedom
With a New Introduction by Mervyn Hartwig
(Sprache: Englisch)
Sets out to develop a critique of the work of Richard Rorty, one of the most influential authors. This title argues that Rorty's account of science and knowledge is based on a half-truth, and that Rorty's problem-field replicates the Kantian resolution of...
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Sets out to develop a critique of the work of Richard Rorty, one of the most influential authors. This title argues that Rorty's account of science and knowledge is based on a half-truth, and that Rorty's problem-field replicates the Kantian resolution of the third antinomy: we are determined as material bodies, but free as discursive subjects.
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In Philosophy and the Idea of Freedom Roy Bhaskar sets out to develop a critique of the work of Richard Rorty, who must be one of the most influential authors of recent decades. In a brilliant tour de force, Bhaskar shows how Rorty falls victim to the very epistemological problematic Rorty himself describes.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Philosophy and the Idea of Freedom “
Anti-Rorty; Part 1 Knowledge; Chapter 1 Rorty's Account of Science; Chapter 2 Pragmatism, Epistemology and the Inexorability of Realism; Part 2 Agency; Chapter 3 The Essential Tension of Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature - or a Tale of Two Rortys; Chapter 4 How is Freedom Possible?; Part 3 Politics; Chapter 5 Self-defining versus Social Engineering - Poetry and Politics:The Problem-field of Contingency, Irony and Solidarity; Chapter 6 Rorty's Apologetics; Part 4 Kibitzing; Chapter 7 Reference, Fictionalism and Radical Negation; Chapter 8 Rorty's Changing Conceptions of Philosophy; For Critical Realism; Chapter 9 Critical Realism in Context;
Autoren-Porträt von Roy Bhaskar
Roy Bhaskar is the originator of the philosophy of critical realism, and the author of many acclaimed and in?uential works including A Realist Theory of Science, The Possibility of Naturalism, Scientific Realism and Human Emancipation, Dialectic: The Pulse of Freedom, Plato Etc., From Science to Emancipation, Reflections on meta-Reality and (with Mervyn Hartwig) The Formation of Critical Realism. He is an editor of Critical Realism: Essential Readings and Interdisciplinarity and Climate Change and was the founding chair of the Centre for Critical Realism. He is currently a World Scholar at the University of London Institute of Education.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Roy Bhaskar
- 2010, 240 Seiten, Maße: 15,6 x 23,4 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis
- ISBN-10: 0415579643
- ISBN-13: 9780415579643
Sprache:
Englisch
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"Philosophy and the Idea of Freedom is full of fascinating, important ideas and insights, and is immensely timely. It will have a deeply beneficial effect, and will surely be very widely read and discussed." -- Professor Terry Eagleton, University of Oxford
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