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The Rorty-Habermas Debate: Toward Freedom as Responsibility

The Rorty-Habermas Debate: Toward Freedom as Responsibility

Kilanowski, Marcin

Hardcover

Series: Suny American Philosophy and Cultural Thought

PhilosophyGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 1438483554
ISBN13: 9781438483559
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: May 1 2021
Pages: 292
Weight: 1.25
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

Argues that out of the confrontation between Rorty and Habermas, we might be able to find a new way to think about the kind of politics we need today.

The Rorty-Habermas debate has been written on widely, but a full treatment of its importance had to wait until now. We have some historical distance from this exchange, which extended over three decades, and which touches upon the central concerns of numerous fields of study and of social organization. From law, to politics, to philosophy and communication theory, and including the basics of action, these two towering figures compare their forms of pragmatism. Marcin Kilanowski sets the debate in its historical and multilayered context, comparing it with criticism and commentary from his own viewpoint and from that of other important thinkers who observed and participated in the famous exchange. This book not only provides background in the history of philosophy for a general reader but also will be useful to those who need an abbreviated narrative and compendium of relevant sources for their own thinking and research. Kilanowski shows the points of convergence between Rorty and Habermas, and also examines the meaning of the outcome of their long exchange. Does the result get us any closer to a viable idea of freedom? Of responsibility? The book suggests some answers to these and other related questions.

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