Post-Analytic Philosophy

by John Rajchman (Editor), Cornel West (Editor)

Overview

— Jacques Derrida

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780231060677
Publisher:	Columbia University Press
Publication date:	12/20/1985
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	275
Product dimensions:	0.70(w) x 6.00(h) x 9.00(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

John Rajchman is assitant professor of philosophy at Fordham University.

Cornel West is associate professor of philosophy of religion at the Yale Divinty School.

Table of Contents

1. Solidarity or Objectivity?, by Richard Rorty
2. After Empiricism, by Hilary Putnam
3. Subjective and Objective, by Thomas Nagel
4. Dewey, Democracy: The Task Ahead of Us, by Richard J. Bernstein
5. Philosophy as/and/of Literature, by Arthur C. Danto
6. Emerson, Coleridge, Kant, by Stanley Cavell
7. The Pragmatics of Contemporary Jewish Culture, by Harold Bloom
8. On the Very Idea of a Conceptual Scheme, by Donald Davidson
9. Styles of Scientific Reasoning, by Ian Hacking
10. Mathematical Versus Experimental Traditions in the Development of Physical Science, by Thomas S. Kuhn
11. A Kantian Conception of Equality, by John Rawls
12. Contractualism and Utilitarianism, by T.M. Scanlon
13. Revolutionary Action Today, by Sheldon S. Wolin

What People are Saying About This

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.

Editorial Reviews

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

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.

Jacques Derrida