Pragmatism, Critique, Judgment: Essays for Richard J. BernsteinThe work of Richard J. Bernstein has achieved a groundbreaking synthesis of the analytical and continental modes of thought. Countering the highly technical metaphysical and epistemological puzzles of analytic philosophy in the early 1960s, Bernstein offered a model of philosophy in a democratic society as the work of the engaged public intellectual. Working within the tradition of American pragmatism, he also changed that tradition by opening it to the international intellectual currents of phenomenology, deconstructionism, and critical theory. These essays by leading philosophers and social thinkers pay tribute to Bernstein and reflect the themes that have engaged him throughout his career.Pragmatism, Critique, Judgment opens with a group of essays that examine the place of philosophy in a democratic society; included in this section are Richard Rorty's exploration of the legacy of American pragmatism and J rgen Habermas's reconsideration of ethics in philosophy. The essays in the second section examine postpositivist social critique and include Jacques Derrida's consideration of the philosophical paradoxes of the death penalty. The third group of essays considers the theme of radical evil, and includes discussions of Bernstein's nuanced reading of Hannah Arendt. The book ends with a biographical essay based in part on a series of conversations with Bernstein himself. |
Contents
Philosophy as a Transitional Genre | 3 |
A Reconsideration of | 29 |
Ergo sumBetween Poetry and Philosophy | 45 |
What Is Pragmatism? | 73 |
Hegels Aphorisms about The True | 93 |
Contents | 100 |
Redistribution | 125 |
From | 149 |
Another Temptation of Theodicy | 197 |
Memory Traces Archive Historical Truth and | 225 |
On a Possible | 243 |
Common Sense | 261 |
Semprun and the Experience of Radical Evil | 295 |
A Philosopher from New York | 329 |
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Pragmatism, Critique, Judgment: Essays for Richard J. Bernstein Richard J. Bernstein No preview available - 2004 |