Philosophy and the idea of freedom
By: Roy Bhaskar
Edition: [Rev. ed.].
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780415579650; 9780415579643; 9780203851098
Subjects: Rorty, Richard; Critical realism
Table of contents: title: Section I: Anti-Rorty; title: Knowledge; title: Rorty's account of science; title: Pragmatism, epistemology, and the inexorability of realism; title: Agency; title: The essential tension of philosophy and the mirror of nature  or a tale of two Rortys; title: How is freedom possible?; title: Politics; title: Self-defining versus social engineering  poetry and politics : the problem-field of contingency, irony, and solidarity; title: Rorty's apologetics; title: Reference, fictionalism and radical negation; title: Rorty's changing conceptions of philosophy; title: Section II: For critical realism; title: Critical realism in context; title: Appendix 1: Social theory and moral philosophy; title: Appendix 2: Marxist philosophy from Marx to Althusser.