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.
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