After Philosophy : End or Transformation?

by Kenneth Baynes, James Bohman and Thomas McCarthy (Eds.)

• ISBN13: 9780262521130
• ISBN10: 026252113X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1986-11-18
• Publisher: Mit Pr

Summary

After Philosophy provides an excellent framework for understanding the most important strains of current philosophical work in North America, England, France, and Germany. The selections from the work of fourteen contemporary philosophers not only display the multiplicity of approaches being pursued since the breakup of any consensus on what philosophy is, but also help to clarify this proliferation of views and to spell out today's basic options for doing, or not doing, philosophy today. With a general introduction delineating what is in dispute between the different parties to the end-of-philosophy debates, brief introductions to the thought of each author, and suggestions for further reading following each selection, After Philosophyis ideally suited for use in any course that includes an overview of the bewildering variety of contemporary approaches to philosophy. The major sections and contributors are: I. The End of Philosophy. Richard Rorty Jean-Franccedil;ois Lyotard, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida. II. The Transformation of Philosophy: Systematic Proposals. Donald Davidson, Michael Dummett, Hilary Putnam, Karl-Otto Apel, Juuml;rgen Habermas. III.The Transformation of Philosophy: Hermeneutics, Narrative, Rhetoric. Hans-Georg Gadamer, Paul Ricoeur, Alasdair Maclntyre, Hans Blumenberg, Charles Taylor. Kenneth Baynes is currently doing postgraduate research at the University of Frankfurt. James Bohman lectures in philosophy at Boston University, and Thomas McCarthy is a professor of philosophy at Northwestern University and the editor of the MIT Press series Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought.

Table of Contents

Sources and Acknowledgments	ix
General Introduction	1	(20)
I The End of Philosophy
Richard Rorty
Introduction	21	(3)
Suggested Readings	24	(2)
Pragmatism and Philosophy	26	(41)
Jean-Francois Lyotard
Introduction	67	(4)
Suggested Readings	71	(2)
The Postmodern Condition	73	(22)
Michel Foucault
Introduction	95	(3)
Suggested Readings	98	(2)
Questions of Method: An Interview with Michel Foucault	100	(19)
Jacques Derrida
Introduction	119	(4)
Suggested Readings	123	(2)
The Ends of Man	125	(36)
II The Transformation of Philosophy: Systematic Proposals
Donald Davidson
Introduction	161	(3)
Suggested Readings	164	(2)
The Method of Truth in Metaphysics	166	(19)
Michael Dummett
Introduction	185	(2)
Suggested Readings	187	(2)
Can Analytical Philosophy Be Systematic, and Ought It to Be?	189	(28)
Hilary Putnam
Introduction	217	(3)
Suggested Readings	220	(2)
Why Reason Can't Be Naturalized	222	(23)
Karl-Otto Apel
Introduction	245	(3)
Suggested Readings	248	(2)
The Problem of Philosophical Foundations in Light of a Transcendental Pragmatics of Language	250	(41)
Jurgen Habermas
Introduction	291	(3)
Suggested Readings	294	(2)
Philosophy as Stand-In and Interpreter	296	(23)
III The Transformation of Philosophy: Hermeneutics, Rhetoric, Narrative
Hans-Georg Gadamer
Introduction	319	(3)
Suggested Readings	322	(3)
Hermeneutics as Practical Philosophy	325	(14)
Foreword to the Second German Edition of Truth and Method	339	(12)
Paul Ricoeur
Introduction	351	(3)
Suggested Readings	354	(3)
On Interpretation	357	(24)
Alasdair MacIntyre
Introduction	381	(2)
Suggested Readings	383	(2)
Relativism, Power, and Philosophy	385	(27)
The Relationship of Philosophy to History: Postscript to the Second Edition of After Virtue	412	(11)
Hans Blumenberg
Introduction	423	(3)
Suggested Readings	426	(3)
An Anthropological Approach to the Contemporary Significance of Rhetoric	429	(30)
Charles Taylor
Introduction	459	(3)
Suggested Readings	462	(2)
Overcoming Epistemology	464