The New Constellation by Richard J Bernstein

The New Constellation by Richard J Bernstein

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

One of the leading American philosophers writing and teaching today, Richard J. Bernstein is Vera List Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research in New York and former dean of its graduate faculty. Prior to that, for more than two decades he was?professor of philosophy at Haverford College. Few contemporary philosophers are as influential in so many different intellectual disciplines and discussions as Bernstein. He is at home not only among American pragmatic philosophers with whom he is so closely identified but equally with Continental thinkers.

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ISBN 13	9780262521666
ISBN 10	0262521660
Title	The New Constellation
Author	Richard J Bernstein
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	MIT Press Ltd
Year published	1992-01-21
Number of pages	368
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