The Practice of Political Theory : Rorty and Continental Thought / Clayton Chin; Amy Allen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chin, Clayton, author.

Contributor:

Allen, Amy, editor.

Series:

New directions in critical theory.

New Directions in Critical Theory ; 60

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rorty, Richard.

Political science--Philosophy.

Political science.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (310 pages).

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Recent political thought has grappled with a crisis in philosophical foundations: how do we justify the explicit and implicit normative claims and assumptions that guide political decisions and social criticism? In The Practice of Political Theory, Clayton Chin presents a critical reconstruction of the work of Richard Rorty that intervenes in the current surge of methodological debates in political thought, arguing that Rorty provides us with unrecognized tools for resolving key foundational issues.Chin illustrates the significance of Rorty's thought for contemporary political thinking, casting his conception of "philosophy as cultural politics" as a resource for new models of sociopolitical criticism. He juxtaposes Rorty's pragmatism with the ontological turn, illuminating them as alternative interventions in the current debate over the crisis of foundations in philosophy. Chin places Rorty in dialogue with continental philosophy and those working within its legacy. Focused on both important questions in pragmatist scholarship and central issues in contemporary political thought, The Practice of Political Theory is an important response to the vexed questions of justification and pluralism.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

List of Abbreviations

I. RORTY AND POLITICAL THINKING

INTRODUCTION. THEORY AND METHOD: RECONSTRUCTING RORTY

1. THE AUTHORITY OF THE SOCIAL: A PRAGMATIC ETHOS OF INQUIRY

II. RORTY AND CONTINENTAL POLITICAL THOUGHT: ONTOLOGY, NATURALISM, AND HISTORY

2. THEORIZING AFTER FOUNDATIONS: ONTOLOGY, LANGUAGE, AND HEIDEGGER

3. RECONSTRUCTING NATURALISM: PRAGMATIC OR ONTOLOGICAL?

4. HISTORY AND MODERNITY: SELF-ASSERTION AND CRITICAL REFLEXIVITY

PART III: RORTY AND CONTEMPORARY POLITICAL THEORY: PRAGMATIC SOCIOPOLITICAL CRITICISM

5. PRAGMATIC POLITICAL THINKING AND CONTEMPORARY CRITICAL SOCIAL THEORY

6. HOW PRAGMATISM CONSTRAINS AND ENABLES POLITICAL THINKING

Notes

References

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Sep 2018)

ISBN:

9780231547994

0231547994

OCLC:

1043306106