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Pragmatism and Idealism - Rorty and Hegel on Representation and Reality (Paperback)
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Pragmatism and Idealism - Rorty and Hegel on Representation and Reality (Paperback)
Series: The Spinoza Lectures
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In this short book, based upon his Spinoza Lectures at the
University of Amsterdam, Robert B. Brandom offers a pragmatist
approach to representation and reality, drawing on Richard Rorty
and Hegel. During the last decade of his life, Rorty emphasized the
anti-authoritarian credentials of his pragmatism. He came to see
pragmatism as the fighting faith of a second phase of the
Enlightenment. The first stage, as Rorty construed it, concerned
our emancipation from nonhuman authority in practical matters:
issues of what we ought to do and how things ought to be. The
envisaged second stage addresses rather our emancipation from
nonhuman authority in theoretical matters. Brandom shows how
pragmatism moves beyond the traditional model of reality as
authoritative over our cognitive representations of it in language
and thought, to a new conception of how discursive practices help
us cope with the vicissitudes of life. Hegel anticipates the
challenge to the very idea of objective reality as providing norms
for thought which Rorty believed required us to enact a second
phase of the Enlightenment. Unlike Rorty, Hegel presents a
detailed, constructive, anti-authoritarian, non-fetishistic, social
pragmatist account of the representational dimension of conceptual
content. At its heart is an account of the social dimension of
discursive normativity in terms of reciprocal recognition, and an
account of the historical dimension of discursive normativity in
terms of a distinctive new conception of reason: the recollective
rationality that turns a past into a tradition. His idealism
thereby offers a concrete pragmatist alternative to Rorty's global
semantic and epistemological anti-representationalism.
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