SUNY series in American Philosophy and Cultural Thought
Toward Freedom as Responsibility
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SUNY series in American Philosophy and Cultural Thought
Toward Freedom as Responsibility
About This Book
The Rorty-Habermas debate has been written on widely, but a full treatment of its importance had to wait until now. We have some historical distance from this exchange, which extended over three decades, and which touches upon the central concerns of numerous fields of study and of social organization. From law, to politics, to philosophy and communication theory, and including the basics of action, these two towering figures compare their forms of pragmatism. Marcin Kilanowski sets the debate in its historical and multilayered context, comparing it with criticism and commentary from his own viewpoint and from that of other important thinkers who observed and participated in the famous exchange. This book not only provides background in the history of philosophy for a general reader but also will be useful to those who need an abbreviated narrative and compendium of relevant sources for their own thinking and research. Kilanowski shows the points of convergence between Rorty and Habermas, and also examines the meaning of the outcome of their long exchange. Does the result get us any closer to a viable idea of freedom? Of responsibility? The book suggests some answers to these and other related questions.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- From the Author
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- I Opening: First Comes Dewey
- II On Rortyâs Sociopolitical Thought
- III On Habermasâs Theory of Communicative Action
- IV On the Convergence of the Perspectives of Rorty and Habermas
- V Postscript: From Dewey to Rorty and Habermas
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Back Cover