Beyond Objectivism and Relativism: Science, Hermeneutics, and Praxis First Edition Edition

by Richard J. Bernstein (Author)

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Drawing freely and expertly from Continental and analytic traditions, Richard Bernstein examines a number of debates and controversies exemplified in the works of Gadamer, Habermas, Rorty, and Arendt. He argues that a "new conversation" is emerging about human rationality—a new understanding that emphasizes its practical character and has important ramifications both for thought and action.

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"A fascinating and timely treatment of the objectivism versus relativism debates occurring in philosophy of science, literary theory, the social sciences, political science, and elsewhere."—Choice

"A superb book. It combines two strong qualities rarely seen together: it makes an insightful and extremely valuable contribution to the philosophical issues on a central matter [and] is at the cutting edge of the subject."—Charles Taylor

About the Author

Richard J. Bernstein is Vera List Professor, Graduate Faculty, at the New School for Social Research and Chair of the Department of Philosophy. He is the author of numerous books, including these also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press: The Restructuring of Social and Political Theory and Praxis and Action: Contemporary Philosophies of Human Activity.

Paperback: 320 pages
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press; First Edition edition (November 1, 1983)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0812211650
ISBN-13: 978-0812211658
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Michael J. Quirk

A Clear, Comprehensive Guide to Contemporary Philosophy

November 22, 2013

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Richard J. Bernstein, along with Charles Taylor, Alasdair MacIntyre, and the late Richard Rorty, is one of the few comtemporary philosophers with a knack for taking the complicated ideas and dense prose characteristic of the discipline, and translating into a clear narrative that the "general reader" can understand and appreciate. BEYOND OBJECTIVISM AND RELATIVISM is his effort to explain how strands of both analytic and continental philosophy come together in a rejection of a dichotomy that has prevailed in Western thought since at least the time of Descartes. The dichotomy, which Bernstein labels "the Cartesian Anxiety", centers around a grand "either/or": either there are timeless, necessary constraints on our thinking that can be discovered by philosophy (objectivism), or everything is relative to arbitrary conceptual schemes, customs, or regimes of power (relativism). Bernstein, in my view, brilliantly shows why this "either/or" is optional, and explores the ways in which philosophers as diverse as Thomas Kuhn, Richard Rorty, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Jurgen Habermas, and Hannah Arendt re-frame the practice of philosophy to evade it. BEYOND OBJECTIVISM AND RELATIVISM is essential reading for anyone wishing an entree into contemporary philosophy which does not fall into the "analytic v. continental" polemic, and should be read alongside his equally engaging THE PRAGMATIC TURN. Together, these books provide a welcome and lucid roadmap to contemporary philosophy.

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May 6, 2015

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Good arrival time, great packaging and is a really great reading book, great. If this is what you need, I would recommend buying it.

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July 14, 2015

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A book required for my doctoral program, very well written.

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June 9, 2015

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One of the most valuable books of a great philosopher. It takes account of a major problem of Philosophy, Politics and Social Science nowadays. I think it became a basic reading for people concerned to these issues.

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Bruno Teles Nunes

But great for understand the modern approach for hermeneutics

December 28, 2014

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Hard reading!! But great for understand the modern approach for hermeneutics.

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