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Richard J. Bernstein and the Expansion of American Philosophy - Thinking the Plural (Hardcover)
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Richard J. Bernstein and the Expansion of American Philosophy - Thinking the Plural (Hardcover)
Series: American Philosophy Series
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Thinking The Plural: Richard J. Bernstein and the Expansion of
American Philosophy is a text devoted to highlighting,
scrutinizing, and deploying Bernstein's philosophical research as
it has intersected and impacted American and European philosophy.
Collecting essays written explicitly for the volume from former
students of Bernstein's, the book shows the breadth and scope of
his work while expanding key insights into new contexts and testing
his work against thinkers outside the canon of his own scholarship.
In light of urgent contemporary ethical and political problems, the
papers collected here show the continuing relevance of Bernstein's
lifelong focus on democracy, dialogue, pragmatism, fallibilism, and
pluralism. Bernstein has always contested the supposed
Analytic/Continental divide, insisting on the pluralism of
philosophical discourses and styles that contribute to genuine
debate and save philosophy from stale academicism. This book enacts
Bernstein's pluralistic spirit by crossing traditions and
generating new avenues for ongoing research. A central argument of
the book is that thinkers of different backgrounds, using diverse,
and even clashing methodologies, contribute to the understanding of
a given problem, issue, or theme. This argument lies at the heart
of Bernstein's published works and is central to the fallibilistic
pragmatism of his pedagogy. This book therefore does not rest on a
single answer to a question or a univocal theme, but shows the
differentiation of Bernstein's scholarship through the extension of
pluralism into territory Bernstein himself did not enter. The
chapters, individually and collectively, demonstrate the force of
Bernstein's pluralism beyond mere commentary on his works. This
book will be of interest to many people: 1) scholars, students and
others in American philosophy who have worked on or with Richard J.
Bernstein or in the tradition of American Pragmatism widely
construed, 2) those interested in the intersections between
American and European philosophy or between the Analytic and
Continental traditions, 3) professional philosophers, philosophy
students, and public intellectuals concerned with the application
of theory to contemporary ethical and political problems, and 4)
those interested in an introduction to the key concepts animating
Bernstein's work and their relationship to the history of
philosophy.
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