After the demise of the tradition : Rorty, critical theory, and the fate of philosophy
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After the demise of the tradition : Rorty, critical theory, and the fate of philosophy
Westview Press, 1991
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-269) and index
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Description
Addressing the "end-of-philosophy" debate and the challenge it presents to contemporary philosophy, this book draws on Wittgenstein, Quine, Davidson, Habermas and Foucault, among others. It develops the implications of Richard Rorty's arguments in particular and provides a response: the development of a holistic, anti-foundationalist account of philosophy that engages critical theory and wide reflective equilibrium in carving out a positive role for a new kind of philosophy.
Table of Contents
- Subjecting the tradition to stress
- Rorty and the self-image of philosophy
- how to be sceptical about philosophy
- the tradition in retreat
- on being ontologically unserious
- Wittgenstein, Wittgensteinians and the end of philosophy
- can there be progress in philosophy?
- scientism, pragmatism and the fate of philosophy
- searching for an emancipatory perspective - wide reflective equilibrium and the hermeneutical circle
- wide reflective equilibrium and the transformation of philosophy
- in defence of wide reflective equilibrium.
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