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

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: New Directions in Critical Theory ; 60Publisher: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780231173988
  • 9780231547994
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 320.092 23
LOC classification:
  • B945.R524 C46 2018
  • B945.R524
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
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
Summary: 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 the work of Richard Rorty that intervenes in the current surge of methodological debates in political thought, arguing that Rorty provides us with unrecognized tools for resolving key foundational issues.Chin illustrates the significance of Rorty's thought for contemporary political thinking, casting his conception of "philosophy as cultural politics" as a resource for new models of sociopolitical criticism. He juxtaposes Rorty's pragmatism with the ontological turn, illuminating them as alternative interventions in the current debate over the crisis of foundations in philosophy. Chin places Rorty in dialogue with continental philosophy and those working within its legacy. Focused on both important questions in pragmatist scholarship and central issues in contemporary political thought, The Practice of Political Theory is an important response to the vexed questions of justification and pluralism.
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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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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 the work of Richard Rorty that intervenes in the current surge of methodological debates in political thought, arguing that Rorty provides us with unrecognized tools for resolving key foundational issues.Chin illustrates the significance of Rorty's thought for contemporary political thinking, casting his conception of "philosophy as cultural politics" as a resource for new models of sociopolitical criticism. He juxtaposes Rorty's pragmatism with the ontological turn, illuminating them as alternative interventions in the current debate over the crisis of foundations in philosophy. Chin places Rorty in dialogue with continental philosophy and those working within its legacy. Focused on both important questions in pragmatist scholarship and central issues in contemporary political thought, The Practice of Political Theory is an important response to the vexed questions of justification and pluralism.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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