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Stanley Fish on philosophy, politics and law : how Fish works /
"Fish's writings on philosophy, politics and law comprise numerous books and articles produced over many decades. This book connects those dots in order to reveal the overall structure of his argument and to demonstrate how his work in politics and law flows logically from his philosophica...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2014.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half-title; Title page; Copyright information; Dedication; Table of contents; Short titles of books by Stanley Fish; Introduction; Part I Philosophy; 1 The nature of the self; Kant's conception of the self; Fish's critique of Kant's conception of the self; Fish's conception of the self; 2 Epistemology; Foundationalism; Fish's critique of foundationalism; Fish's anti-foundationalism; Everyday life; Campus life; Law; Science; Logic; Facts, reasons, and beliefs; 3 The role of theory; Three orthodox claims about the role of theory.
- Fish's rejection of the claim that theory can transcend the limitations of local contextsFish's rejection of the claim that all local practices presuppose some theory; Fish's rejection of the claim that theory has a special role in guiding or reforming other practices; Abstract theory is empty and so cannot guide; The autonomy of practices; The autonomy of theory means that it has no necessary consequences for other practices; Fish's account of the contingent consequences of theory; Part II Politics; 4 Political theory; Fish's critique of liberal political theory; Liberalism's inconsistency.
- Liberalism's foundationalismLiberalism's dichotomies; Liberalism's neutrality; Liberal neutral principles; Liberal neutral procedures; Liberal neutral reason; A liberal neutral principle examined: freedom of religion; Rational deliberation vs. authority and tradition; Freedom of association vs. community of worship; Civility and tolerance vs. obedience to God's commands; Marginalization; Exclusion; Fish's critique of anti-foundationalist political theories: critical theory, postmodernism, and pragmatism; Anti-foundationalist theory hope and anti-foundationalist theory fear.
- Progressive anti-foundationalist political theoriesCritical theory; Postmodernism; Pragmatism; 5 Political substance; Fish's claim that there is no necessary connection between his philosophical analysis and any substantive political positions; Fish's own substantive political positions; The objection that some substantive political positions do follow from Fish's philosophical analysis; 6 Political practice; Fish's different senses of politics
- Fish on political practice.
- Theory plays no role in political success, but theory-talk can play a rhetorical and contingent role in political successArguments that are philosophically defective may still legitimately be used for political purposes; Because neutral principles are impossible, there is always a political contest as to what partisan substance those principles will really contain; Political paralysis can be produced by a false belief in neutral principles and in the relevance of philosophy to politics; Conflict is unavoidable but can be carried out in ways that avoid warfare; Part III Law; 7 Legal positivism.