Pragmatic liberalism and the critique of modernity
Title:
Pragmatic liberalism and the critique of modernity
Author:
Gutting, Gary.
ISBN:
9780521640138
9780521649735
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Publication Information:
Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Physical Description:
xii, 198 pages ; 24 cm.
Series:
Modern European philosophy
Modern European philosophy.
Contents:
Introduction: The Question of Modernity -- I. Richard Rorty: The Rudiments of Pragmatic Liberalism -- 1. The Philosophy of Representations -- 2. Knowledge without Representations -- 3. Justification as a Social Practice.
4. The Problem of Truth -- 5. Davidsonian Therapy -- 6. Truth and Science -- 7. Ethics without Foundations -- 8. Liberal Ironism -- II. Alasdair MacIntyre: A Modern Malgré Lui. 1. MacIntyre's Critique of the Enlightenment.
2. Which Enlightenment? -- 3. In Defense of Enlightenment Humanism -- 4. The Lure of Tradition -- 5. The Tradition of the Virtues -- 6. MacIntyre and Modernity -- 7. MacIntyre versus Pragmatic Liberalism.
III. Charles Taylor: An Augustinian Modern -- 1. Taylor's Historical Project -- 2. Locke and the Radical Enlightenment -- 3. The Primacy of Everyday Life -- 4. Beyond the Enlightenment: Evil, Romanticism, and Poetic Truth.
5. Taylor's Critique of Naturalism -- 6. Williams and Objectivity -- 7. Naturalism and Hypergoods -- Pragmatic Liberalism: Concluding Reflections -- 1. Recapitulation -- 2. Metaphilosophical Coda.
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