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The New Constellation: The Ethical-Political Horizons of Modernity/Postmodernity
Contributor(s): Bernstein, Richard J. (Author)
ISBN: 0262521660     ISBN-13: 9780262521666
Publisher: MIT Press
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Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: January 1992
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BISAC Categories:
- Philosophy | History & Surveys - Modern
Dewey: 190.904
LCCN: 91-676
Series: Applications; 3
Physical Information: 0.84" H x 6.02" W x 8.97" (1.26 lbs) 368 pages
 
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During the last two decades Richard Bernstein has established a worldwide reputation as one of the few philosophers able to bridge different traditions of thought and to clarify, through sympathetic criticism, the key intellectual issues of our time. In these 10 essays he explores the ethical and political dimensions of the modernity/postmodernity debates. Bernstein argues that modernity/postmodernity should be understood as a pervasive mood - what Heidegger calls a Stimmung - one that is amorphous, shifting, and protean but that nevetheless exerts a powerful influence on our current ways of thinking and acting. Focusing on such thinkers as Heidegger, Derrida, Foucault, Rorty, and Habermas, Bernstein seeks to demonstrate the strengths and weaknesses of their work and to highlight the ways in which they have contributed to the formation of a new and distinctive constellation of ideas and themes.

Essays
Philosophy, History, and Critique - The Rage Against Reason - Incommensurability and Otherness Revisited - Heidegger's Silence? Ethos and Technology - Foucault: Critique as a Philosophic Ethos - Serious Play: The Ethical-Political Horizon of Derrida - An Allegory of Modernity/Postmodernity: Habermas and Derrida - One Step Forward, Two Steps Backward: Rorty on Liberal Democracy - Rorty's Liberal Utopia, Reconciliation/Rupture

Contributor Bio(s): Bernstein, Richard J.: - Richard J. Bernstein is T. Wistar Brown Professor of Philosophy at Haverford College. He was editor of the journal Praxis International, in which these essays recently appeared.