The Practice of Political Theory : : Rorty and Continental Thought /

The Practice of Political Theory : : Rorty and Continental Thought / / Clayton Chin.

Recent political thought has grappled with a crisis in philosophical foundations: how do we justify the explicit and implicit normative claims and assumptions that guide political decisions and social criticism? In The Practice of Political Theory, Clayton Chin presents a critical reconstruction of...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
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Chin, Clayton,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2018]
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Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:New Directions in Critical Theory ; 60
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Acknowledgments
  • List of Abbreviations
  • I. RORTY AND POLITICAL THINKING
  • INTRODUCTION. THEORY AND METHOD: RECONSTRUCTING RORTY
  • 1. THE AUTHORITY OF THE SOCIAL: A PRAGMATIC ETHOS OF INQUIRY
  • II. RORTY AND CONTINENTAL POLITICAL THOUGHT: ONTOLOGY, NATURALISM, AND HISTORY
  • 2. THEORIZING AFTER FOUNDATIONS: ONTOLOGY, LANGUAGE, AND HEIDEGGER
  • 3. RECONSTRUCTING NATURALISM: PRAGMATIC OR ONTOLOGICAL?
  • 4. HISTORY AND MODERNITY: SELF-ASSERTION AND CRITICAL REFLEXIVITY
  • PART III: RORTY AND CONTEMPORARY POLITICAL THEORY: PRAGMATIC SOCIOPOLITICAL CRITICISM
  • 5. PRAGMATIC POLITICAL THINKING AND CONTEMPORARY CRITICAL SOCIAL THEORY
  • 6. HOW PRAGMATISM CONSTRAINS AND ENABLES POLITICAL THINKING
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index

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