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Pragmatic encounters, Richard J. Bernstein

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Pragmatic encounters, Richard J. Bernstein

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-227) and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Pragmatic encounters

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

911199990

Responsibility statement

Richard J. Bernstein

Series statement

Studies in American philosophy, 3

Table Of 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

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