Richard Rorty

Pragmatism and Political Liberalism

Michael Bacon (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

140 Seiten

2007
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-0-7391-1498-8 (ISBN)

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Richard Rorty is both the most prominent and the most provocative recent exponent of pragmatism. This book offers a sympathetic reconstruction of Rorty's account of pragmatism, in which the aspiration to underwrite inquiry by reference to standards outside of any particular community is given up in favor of a view of inquiry as answerable exclusively to the norms implicit within contingent human practices. Rorty hopes that pragmatism so conceived can help effect a transition towards what he calls an "anti-authoritarian" society, a society in which responsibility is owed solely to one's fellow citizens. The book examines the relationship between pragmatism and political liberalism, a form of liberalism which sets aside discussion of truth and value and seeks instead to derive a constitutional settlement in which citizens can freely pursue their individual projects and purposes. It presents a critical assessment of Rorty's ideal of a liberal utopia, inhabited by strong poets and liberal ironists. By focusing on the relationship between the philosophical and political, the book argues that Rorty provides a compelling statement of pragmatism, containing insights that command the attention of contemporary liberal philosophers. Through textual analysis and reconstruction, it argues that while Rorty's account needs to be amended at several points, it remains a powerful and attractive one, and not the incoherent and pernicious folly that critics often take it to be. Well researched, lively, and succinct, Richard Rorty: Pragmatism and Political Liberalism is ideally suited to specialists and graduate students in philosophy and political theory.

Michael Bacon is the Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in Politics, Department of Politics and International Relations at Royal Holloway, University of London.

Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Chapter 1. Pragmatism as Anti-representationalism Chapter 3 Chapter 2. Pragmatism and Imagination Chapter 4 Chapter 3. The Public Side of Pragmatism Chapter 5 Chapter 4. The Liberal Ironist Chapter 6 Conclusion

Erscheint lt. Verlag	17.12.2007
Sprache	englisch
Maße	160 x 236 mm
Gewicht	322 g
Themenwelt	Sonstiges ► Geschenkbücher
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
ISBN-10	0-7391-1498-0 / 0739114980
ISBN-13	978-0-7391-1498-8 / 9780739114988
Zustand	Neuware