Philosophy and the Idea of Freedom (Paperback, REV)

In Philosophy and the Idea of Freedom Roy Bhaskar sets out to develop a critique of the work of Richard Rorty, who must be one of the most influential authors of recent decades. In a brilliant tour de force, Bhaskar shows how Rorty falls victim to the very epistemological problematic Rorty himself describes. Roy Bhaskar argues that Rorty's account of science and knowledge is based on a half-truth. He sees the historicity of knowledge, but cannot sustain its rationality or the reality of the objects it describes. The author further argues that Rorty's problem-field replicates the Kantian resolution of the third antinomy: we are determined as material bodies, but free as discursive (speaking and writing) subjects. Rorty's actualism (like Kant's) makes human agency impossible. Developing his own critical realism, Bhaskar shows just where Rorty's system comes unstuck, and how the philosophical problems to which it gives rise can be rationally resolved and explained. In this process Bhaskar utilizes his critique of Rorty to begin to elaborate his own alternative interpretation and critique of the philosophical conversation of the West.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Classical Texts in Critical Realism Routledge Critical Realism
Release date:	October 2010
First published:	2011
Authors:	Roy Bhaskar
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	240
Edition:	REV
ISBN-13:	978-0-415-57964-3
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Epistemology, theory of knowledge Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Epistemology, theory of knowledge
LSN:	0-415-57964-3
Barcode:	9780415579643

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