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Engages the work of American philosopher Richard J Bernstein.
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Richard J. Bernstein argues that Arendt should be read today because her penetrating insights help us to think about both the darkness of our times and the sources of illumination…
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Confines of Democracy is a collection of critical assessments and interpretations of Richard J. Bernstein’s extensive and illuminating work on pragmatism, epistemology, hermeneutics, and social and political theory, including Bernstein’s…
This book highlights, scrutinizes, and deploys Bernstein’s philosophical research as it has intersected and impacted American and European philosophy. The chapters show the breadth and scope of his work while…
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This book highlights, scrutinizes, and deploys Bernstein’s philosophical research as it has intersected and impacted American and European philosophy. This book shows the breadth and scope of his work while…
Richard J. Bernstein, who has played a leading role in the pragmatist turn in contemporary philosophy, replies to twelve younger critics in a lively conversation about pragmatism’s past, present, and…
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Richard J. Bernstein argues that despite the apparent chaotic debates about naturalism, there has recently been a series of powerful arguments that support a version of naturalism that is in…
Richard J. Bernstein
In these 10 essays he explores the ethical and political dimensions of the modernity/postmodernity debates.
Hannah Arendt is increasingly recognised as one of the most original social and political thinkers of the twentieth century. Offering a new interpretation of Arendt and her work, this book…
A guide to the conflicting opinions regarding postanalytic philosophy.
The ancient and modern question of what is the nature of man and his activity and what ought to be the directions pursued in this activity is once again being…
A fascinating and timely treatment of the objectivism versus relativism debates occurring in philosophy of science, literary theory, the social sciences, political science, and elsewhere. –Choice
In this volume, Bernstein forsees and outlines the development of a social theory that is at once empirical, interpretive, and critical.
Richard J Bernstein is a leading exponent of American pragmatism and one of the foremost philosophers of the twentieth century. In this collection he takes a pragmatic approach to specific…
Jurgen Habermas is one of the leading and one of the most challenging social theorists of our time. During the past several decades he has been developing a systematic critical…
At present, there is an enormous gulf between the visibility of evil and the paucity of our intellectual resources for coming to grips with it. We have been flooded with…
In this major new work, Richard J. Bernstein argues that many of the most important themes in philosophy during the past one hundred and fifty years are variations and developments…
Just as philosophy begins with doubt, so also a life that may be called human begins with irony so wrote Kierkegaard.
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We live in a time when we are overwhelmed with talk and images of violence. Whether on television, the internet, films or the video screen, we can t escape representations…
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The relation between humans and nature is at the core of the great existential threats of our time, from climate change, extreme weather and environmental destruction to devastating pandemics. We…
Covers a range of philosophical perspectives on communication, including those from analytic philosophy, pragmatism, critical theory, psychoanalysis, systems theory, and more. This book draws attention to the theme of communication…
Helps you draw systematic attention to the theme of communication in twentieth-century academic philosophy. This book covers a range of philosophical perspectives on communication, including those from analytic philosophy, pragmatism…
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* A brilliant critique of the new political language of good and evil used by the Bush Administration. * Written by one of America’s most highly respected political philosophers. *…
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Richard J. Bernstein (New School for Social Research, New York)
An examination of Freud’s last book, Moses and Monotheism.
A collection of the work of Richard Rorty (1931-2007). It offers a comprehensive introduction to Richard Rorty’s life and body of work. It brings key essays published across many volumes…
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Ramin Jahanbegloo elucidates the central concepts in the moral and political thought of Martin Luther King Jr., bringing out the subtlety, potency, and universal importance of his concepts of Agape…
Richard J Andres,Joyce Bernstein
William James
In his famous lectures at Oxford University in 1908 and 1909, William James made a sustained and eloquent case against absolute idealism and intellectualism in philosophy. His own thinking led…
In this volume, a cadre of distinguished scholars comes together to reflect on Confucianism and Deweyan pragmatism as possible resources for a new geopolitics that begins from an ontology of…
This collection examines the life and thought of Agnes Heller, who rose to international acclaim as a Marxist dissident in Eastern Europe. Heller went on to develop one of the…
The threat of 9/11, terrorism, reproductive technology, and globalization has forced us to ask anew whether there are universal moral truths upon which to base ethical and political judgments. Suitable…
Julie J Thomson
I did one of my most bizarre lectures up at the Rhode Island School of Design. It consisted of my trying to move a piano across a stage, and people…
