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Philosophy and the idea of freedom /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bhaskar, Roy
Format: Printed Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2011.
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Table of Contents:
  • Section I: Anti-Rorty
  • Knowledge
  • Rorty's account of science
  • Pragmatism, epistemology, and the inexorability of realism
  • Agency
  • The essential tension of philosophy and the mirror of nature or a tale of two Rortys
  • How is freedom possible?
  • Politics
  • Self-defining versus social engineering poetry and politics : the problem-field of contingency, irony, and solidarity
  • Rorty's apologetics
  • Reference, fictionalism and radical negation
  • Rorty's changing conceptions of philosophy
  • Section II: For critical realism
  • Critical realism in context
  • Appendix 1: Social theory and moral philosophy
  • Appendix 2: Marxist philosophy from Marx to Althusser.