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The practice of political theory : Rorty and continental thought /

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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Chin, Clayton (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, [2018]
Series:New directions in critical theory
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The authority of the social : a pragmatic ethos of enquiry
  • Rorty and continental political thought : ontology, naturalism and history
  • Theorizing after foundations : ontology, language, and heidegger
  • Reconstructing naturalism : pragmatic or ontological?
  • History and modernity : self-assertion and critical reflexivity
  • Rorty's insights for contemporary political theory : pragmatic socio-
  • Political criticism
  • Pragmatic political thinking : Rorty in contemporary critical social theory
  • Rorty and political theory : how pragmatism constrains and enables political
  • Thinking.