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Confines of Democracy: Essays on the Philosophy of Richard J. Bernstein

Confines of Democracy: Essays on the Philosophy of Richard J. Bernstein

del Castillo, Ramón
Faerna, Ángel M.
Hickman, Larry A.

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Philosophy

ISBN10: 900430004X
ISBN13: 9789004300040
Publisher: Brill
Published: Jun 19 2015
Pages: 260
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.20
Language: English
The topics addressed by Richard J. Bernstein in his extensive and illuminating work span the stream of contemporary thought in several directions: ethics, politics, epistemology, philosophy of history, and social theory. In reflecting on them Bernstein has played an intermediary role between the most recognizable product of American philosophical tradition, i.e. Pragmatism, and such central trends in European 20th century thought as Marxism, Psychoanalysis, Critical Theory, and Hermeneutics.
In this volume a host of prominent scholars from the United States, Europe, and Latin America pays tribute to Bernstein's lifelong reflection on such present human problems as: the achievements and the dilemmas of modern societies, the legitimation crisis of democracy, the uses and abuses of public space, the role of scientific knowledge and technology in shaping the modern life, the ethical and political interplay between identity and community, and the preconditions and limits of understanding in multicultural contexts.
The fifteen essays in this book, accompanied by separate replies by Bernstein, are organized in four sections: Bernstein, Rorty and American Pragmatism, Epistemology and Hermeneutics, Good, Evil and Judgment, and Democratic Vistas. As Prof. Bernstein declares in his Preface, these contributions are expressions of my own commitment to engaged fallibilistic pluralism.

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