Pragmatism, critique, judgment
Subtitle: essays for Richard J. Bernstein
By: edited by Seyla Benhabib and Nancy Fraser.
Contributors: Bernstein, Richard J.; Benhabib, Seyla.; Fraser, Nancy.
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 379
Subjects: Philosophy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Philosophy's scope and limits. Philosophy as a transitional genre / Richard Rorty; title: The moral and the ethical: a reconsideration of the issue of the priority of the right over the good / Jürgen Habermas; title: "... Ergo sum": between poetry and philosophy / Geoffrey Hartman; title: What is pragmatism? / Charles Taylor; title: Hegel's aphorisms about "the true" / Yirmiyahu Yovel; title: Reconstructing social critique. Institutionalizing democratic justice: redistribution, recognition, and participation / Nancy Fraser; title: Political philosophy and racial injustice: from normative to critical theory / Thomas McCarthy; title: Kantian questions, Arendtian answers: statelessness, cosmopolitanism, and the right to have rights / Seyla Benhabib; title: Capital punishment: another "temptation of theodicy" / Jacques Derrida; title: Memory, judgment, evil. Memory traces, archive, historical truth, and the return of the repressed: on the rediscovery of Freud's Moses / Agnes Heller; title: Omnipotence and radical evil: on a possible rapprochement between Hannah Arendt and psychoanalysis / Joel Whitebook; title: Reflecting on judgment: common sense and a common world / Jerome Kohn; title: Semprun and the experience of radical evil / Carol L. Bernstein; title: The seventh demon: reflections on absolute evil and the Holocaust / Shoshana Yovel; title: Life and work. A philosopher from New York / Judith Friedlander; title: Works by Richard J. Bernstein.