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Philosophical Profiles : Essays in a Pragmatic Mode
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Philosophical Profiles brings together ten important essays by Richard Berstein. Each focuses on the work of a thinker or group of thinkers at the center of contemporary developments in philosophy,...
Philosophical Profiles brings together ten important essays by Richard Berstein. Each focuses on the work of a thinker or group of thinkers at the center of contemporary developments in philosophy, including Hannah Arendt, John Dewey, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Jurgen Habermas, G.W.F. Hegel, Alasdair MacIntyre, Herbert Marcuse, and Richard Rorty.
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- Creator
- Richard J. Bernstein
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2015]
- ©1986
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- 1 online resource (326 p.)
- ISBNs
- 9781512814347, 1512814342, 0812212169
- OCLC
- ocn966782525, ocn952536756
- Includes index.
- Bibliography: p. [271]-303.
- Issued also in print.
- In English.
- Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Philosophy in the Conversation of Mankind -- 2. What is the Difference that Makes a Difference? Gadamer, Habermas, and Rorty -- 3. From Hermeneutics to Praxis -- 4. Nietzsche or Aristotle? Reflections on Alasdair Maclntyre’s After Virtue -- 5. Why Hegel Now? -- 6. Negativity: Theme and Variations -- 7. Heidegger on Humanism -- 8. Judging - the Actor and the Spectator -- 9. Rethinking the Social and the Political -- 10. John Dewey on Democracy: The Task Before Us -- Notes -- Index