Recent political thought has grappled with a crisis in
philosophical foundations: how do we justify the explicit and
implicit normative claims and assumptions that guide political
decisions and social criticism? In The Practice of Political
Theory, Clayton Chin presents a critical reconstruction of the work
of Richard Rorty that intervenes in the current surge of
methodological debates in political thought, arguing that Rorty
provides us with unrecognized tools for resolving key foundational
issues. Chin illustrates the significance of Rorty's thought for
contemporary political thinking, casting his conception of
"philosophy as cultural politics" as a resource for new models of
sociopolitical criticism. He juxtaposes Rorty's pragmatism with the
ontological turn, illuminating them as alternative interventions in
the current debate over the crisis of foundations in philosophy.
Chin places Rorty in dialogue with continental philosophy and those
working within its legacy. Focused on both important questions in
pragmatist scholarship and central issues in contemporary political
thought, The Practice of Political Theory is an important response
to the vexed questions of justification and pluralism.
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