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Pragmatic encounters / Richard J. Bernstein.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bernstein, Richard J., author.
- Series:
- Routledge studies in American philosophy ; 3.
- Routledge studies in American philosophy ; 3
- Standardized Title:
- Works. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Philosophy, American--20th century.
- Philosophy, American.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 234 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2016.
- Contents:
- Pragmatism and its history
- The romance of philosophy
- The pragmatic turn
- Richard Rorty: "so much the worse for your old intuitions, start working up some new ones"
- John Dewey's encounter with Leon Trotsky
- Democracy and pluralism
- The spectre haunting multiculturalism
- Cultural pluralism
- Charles Taylor's engaged pluralism
- Democratic hope
- The normative core of the public sphere
- Critique in dark times
- Herbert Marcuse's critical legacy
- Hannah Arendt: thought-defying evil
- The justification of violence?
- Morality, politics and religion
- Can we justify universal moral norms?
- Is politics "practicable" without religion?
- The secular-religious divide: Kant's legacy
- Paul Ricoeur's Freud.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-227) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9781848936157
- 184893615X
- OCLC:
- 934508364
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