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Context Over Foundation - Dewey and Marx (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1988)
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Context Over Foundation - Dewey and Marx (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1988)
Series: Sovietica, 52
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"I should venture to assert that the most pervasive fallacy of
philosophic thinking goes back to neglect of context. III John
Dewey " . . . philosophers do not grow like mushrooms, out of the
earth; they are the outgrowth of their period, their nation, whose
most subtle, delicate and invisible juices abound in the
philosophical ideas. ,,2 Karl Marx Few issues are more heatedly
debated in contemporary philosophy circles than that of con textual
ism vs. foundationalism. The genesis for the debate was the
publication in 1979 of Richard Rorty's Philosophy and the Mirror of
Nature, which announ~ed the death of traditional philosophy. By
"traditional" here is meant the quest for a certain or apodictic
bedrock upon which an overall general theory or schema might be
erected. This approach, for Rorty, characterized most previous
philosophy, but especially the era from Descartes to Kant. Further,
the three major philosophic thinkers of the 20th century, Dewey,
Heidegger, and Wittgenstein, each initially tried to construct a
foundational philosophy but each of the three, in his later work,
broke free of the Kantian conception of philosophy as foundational,
and spent his time warning us against those very temptations to
which he himself had once succumbed. Thus their later work is
therapeutic rather than constructive, edifying rather than
systematic, designed to make the reader question his own motives
for philosophizing rather than to 3 supply him with a new
philosophical program.
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