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— Jacques Derrida
A timely and wide ranging assortment of contemporary thought, this collection of essays by thirteen eminent philosophers will capture the attention of literary theorists, intellectual historians, and the educated reader interested in emerging intellectual
Editorial Reviews
Jean-Francois Lyotard
A very important book. The essays it brings together attest to the vitality of American thought....This book announces that the stakes in the question 'what is postmodernity?' are being, and will continue to be, approached, elaborated, and disputed in and by a new international intellectual community, whose sole precedent is called 'The Enlightenment.' And, now as then, this community is a community of philosophers.Jean-Francois Lyotard
A very important book. The essays it brings together attest to the vitality of American thought. . . .This book announces that the stakes in the question 'what is postmodernity?' are being, and will continue to be, approached, elaborated, and disputed in and by a new international intellectual community, whose sole precedent is called 'The Enlightenment.' And, now as then, this community is a community of philosophers.Jacques Derrida
Through the differences and internal divisions which also make for its richness, I am convinced that something essential is brought together and is fully revealed in this collection: what, in point of fact, is new within North American thought today. This event is important in itself in the United States; but I think it is also suited to transform the space of philosophical exchange with Continental Europe, and, in a singular way, with French thought. Indeed, I believe that this book, with rigor and lucidity, acts upon a transformation that has already begun.Product Details
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John Rajchman is Assitant Professor of Philosophy at Fordham University.
Cornel West is Associate Professor of Philosophy of Religion at the Yale Divinty School.
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Table of Contents
1. Solidarity or Objectivity?, by Richard Rorty2. After Empiricism, by Hilary Putnam3. Subjective and Objective, by Thomas Nagel4. Dewey, Democracy: The Task Ahead of Us, by Richard J. Bernstein5. Philosophy as/and/of Literature, by Arthur C. Danto6. Emerson, Coleridge, Kant, by Stanley Cavell7. The Pragmatics of Contemporary Jewish Culture, by Harold Bloom8. On the Very Idea of a Conceptual Scheme, by Donald Davidson9. Styles of Scientific Reasoning, by Ian Hacking10. Mathematical Versus Experimental Traditions in the Development of Physical Science, by Thomas S. Kuhn11. A Kantian Conception of Equality, by John Rawls12. Contractualism and Utilitarianism, by T.M. Scanlon13. Revolutionary Action Today, by Sheldon S. Wolin
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