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Philosophy and the idea of freedom / Roy Bhaskar.
Van Pelt Library B945.R524 B43 2010
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bhaskar, Roy, 1944-2014.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rorty, Richard.
- Critical realism.
- Physical Description:
- xxviii, 202 pages ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- [Revised edition].
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2011.
- Contents:
- Section I: Anti-Rorty
- Knowledge
- Rorty's account of science
- Pragmatism, epistemology, and the inexorability of realism
- Agency
- The essential tension of philosophy and the mirror of nature or a tale of two Rortys
- How is freedom possible?
- Politics
- Self-defining versus social engineering poetry and politics : the problem-field of contingency, irony, and solidarity
- Rorty's apologetics
- Reference, fictionalism and radical negation
- Rorty's changing conceptions of philosophy
- Section II: For critical realism
- Critical realism in context
- Appendix 1: Social theory and moral philosophy
- Appendix 2: Marxist philosophy from Marx to Althusser.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780415579650
- 9780415579643
- 9780203851098
- 0415579651
- 0415579643 )pbk.
- 0203851099
- OCLC:
- 465868524
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