NEW CONSTELLATION, THE THE ETHICAL-POLITICAL HORIZONS OF MODERNITY/POSTMODERNITY

1992, FAIR PAPERBACK, FRONT COVER & PAGES EDGES CREASED MIT PRESS [BERNSTEIN, RICHARD J.] THE ETHICAL-POLITICAL HORIZONS OF MODERNITY/POSTMODERNITY

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During the last two decades Richard Bernstein has established a worldwide reputation as one of the few philosophers able to bridge different traditions of thought and to clarify, through sympathetic criticism, the key intellectual issues of our time. In these 10 essays he explores the ethical and political dimensions of the modernity/postmodernity debates. Bernstein argues that modernity/postmodernity should be understood as a pervasive mood - what Heidegger calls a Stimmung - one that is amorphous, shifting, and protean but that nevetheless exerts a powerful influence on our current ways of thinking and acting. Focusing on such thinkers as Heidegger, Derrida, Foucault, Rorty, and Habermas, Bernstein seeks to demonstrate the strengths and weaknesses of their work and to highlight the ways in which they have contributed to the formation of a new and distinctive constellation of ideas and themes.

Essays
Philosophy, History, and Critique - The Rage Against Reason - Incommensurability and Otherness Revisited - Heidegger's Silence? Ethos and Technology - Foucault: Critique as a Philosophic Ethos - Serious Play: The Ethical-Political Horizon of Derrida - An Allegory of Modernity/Postmodernity: Habermas and Derrida - One Step Forward, Two Steps Backward: Rorty on Liberal Democracy - Rorty's Liberal Utopia, Reconciliation/Rupture

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ISBN: 0262521660

ISBN-13: 9780262521666

Publisher: MIT PRESS

Type: Used

Binding: Softcover

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