Democratic Philosophy and the Politics of Knowledge / / Richard T. Peterson.

Debates over postmodernism, analyses of knowledge and power, and the recurring issue of Heidegger's Nazism have all deepened questions about the relation between philosophy and the social roles of intellectuals. Against such postmodernist rejections of philosophical theory as mounted by Rorty a...

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Place / Publishing House:University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [1996]
©1996
Year of Publication:1996
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (356 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Part One: The Idea of Democratic Philosophy
  • 1. Philosophy and Politics
  • 2. Political Impasse and Liberalism
  • 3. Democratic Philosophy: Democratic Mediation?
  • Part Two: Philosophy and the Division of Labor
  • 4. Making Philosophical Use of the Idea of the Division of Labor
  • 5. The Division of Labor and Its Critique
  • 6. Thinking Philosophically with the Idea of the Division of Labor
  • Part Three: Postmodernism in Philosophy and Politics
  • Introduction
  • 7. Postmodern Philosophy in the Division of Labor
  • 8. Philosophical Criticism of Postmodern Politics
  • Part Four: Democratic Philosophy
  • Introduction
  • 9. Historical Conditions for the Critique of the Division of Labor
  • 10. Democratic Philosophical Mediation
  • 11. Normative Justihcation in Historical Reflection
  • 12. The Project of Democratic Philosophy
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index