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9780812690941

The Institution of Philosophy A Discipline in Crisis?

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    9780812690941

  • ISBN10:

    081269094X

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1999-10-29
  • Publisher: Open Court
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Summary

Book jacket: From postmodernist and post-philosophical quarters we now hear that philosophy is at the end of its rope, that modern philosophy is just another modernist product which has outlived its usefulness. Whatever the precise merits of the various postmodernist critiques, they have certainly compelled many philosophers to take notice, and to concede that their enterprise has reached an impasse.

The essays in this volume mark a new stage in the debate. Though divergent in their philosophical -- or post-philosophical -- standpoints, the authors all share the view that philosophy is at a fateful juncture.

Postmodernism, pragmatism, feminism, and historicism are some of the tendencies scrutinized in this wide-ranging symposium on the past, present, and many possible futures of the 'institution of philosophy.'

Table of Contents

Notes on the Contributors ix
Preface xi
PART I: Philosophy: Self Identity Questioned 1(102)
Introduction
3(10)
Philosophy as Science, as Metaphor, and as Politics
13(22)
Richard Rorty
Philosophy as a Science and as a Worldview
35(26)
Hector-Neri Castaneda
Why is a Philosopher?
61(16)
Hilary Putnam
The Inevitability of Pluralism: Philosophical Practice and Philosophical Excellence
77(26)
A. J. Mandt
PART II: Philosophy: Interpreting the Crisis 103(138)
Introduction
105(6)
The `End-of-Philosophy': An Anatomy of a Cross-Purpose Debate
111(30)
Avner Cohen
Philosophy and its History
141(36)
David M. Rosenthal
The Metaphilosophical Consequences of Pragmatism
177(22)
Mark Okrent
The Illegality of Philosophy
199(18)
Carlin Romano
Reflections on the `Crisis of Modernity'
217(24)
Marcelo Dascal
PART III: Philosophy: What Next? 241(88)
Introduction
243(6)
Radical Philosophy and Radical History
249(22)
Joseph Margolis
Socrates and Sophia Perform the Philosophical Turn
271(12)
Amelie Oksenberg Rorty
Social Criticism Without Philosophy: An Encounter Between Feminism and Postmodernism
283(20)
Nancy Fraser
Linda Nicholson
Ethics in Unethical Times---Towards a Sociology of Ethics
303(26)
H. Redner
Name Index 329

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