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| Title | The Rorty-Habermas debate: toward freedom as responsibility |
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| Creators | Kilanowski Marcin |
| Collection | Электронные книги зарубежных издательств ; Общая коллекция |
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| Language | English |
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| Record create date | 4/3/2021 |
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- Contents
- From the Author
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- The Specter of Auschwitz
- Pragmatism
- On Sources and Crucial Issues
- Step by Step
- I Opening: First Comes Dewey
- Introduction
- From Crisis to New Liberalism
- Individual and Community
- Which Political Form?
- Radical Democracy
- Dialogue and Education
- Toward Great Community
- Utopian Project
- Followers
- II On Rorty’s Sociopolitical Thought
- Introduction
- Rorty and Dewey
- Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature
- Contingency
- Ethnocentrism
- Whichever Kind of Politics
- Breaking with the Tradition
- From Contingency to Irony
- On Contingency
- Two Approaches to Truth
- Contingency of Language and Self
- New Languages, New Vocabularies, New Ways of Thinking
- Rationality
- Relativism?
- Beyond Relativism
- Usefulness
- The Place of “Truth” in the Political Sphere
- On Irony
- Ironists and Metaphysicians
- Ironic Theorists and Liberal Theorists
- Freeing from Metaphysical Longing
- On Contingency
- Toward an Ideal Liberal State
- On Ethnocentrism
- Contingent Liberal Society
- Toward a New Liberal Discourse
- On Liberal Institutions
- From Deconstruction to Alternative Solutions
- Toward Tolerance
- Problems and Progress
- Toward Limiting Cruelty and Suffering
- Liberal Utopia
- From Objectivity to Solidarity
- Pain, Suffering, and Human Solidarity
- Solidarity is Contingent
- Communication
- Toward Agreement
- “Equality of Opportunity” and the “Standard Bourgeois Freedoms”
- On Liberal Institutions
- Objections
- Two Basic Objections
- Attempt at Answering the First Objection: Does the Concept of Irony Contribute to the Weakening of Liberal Society?
- Attempt at Answering the Second Objection: Is Ironism to Be Reconciled with Solidarity?
- On Division into the Private and the Public
- Blaming the Truth
- The Private and the Public
- Can We Make Such a Division?
- Rorty’s Inconsistence?
- Unjustified Fears
- Is It Already “As Good”?
- All Categories Are Good—As Long as They Bring Us Advantage
- Conclusion
- Introduction
- III On Habermas’s Theory of Communicative Action
- Introduction
- From Radical Criticism to Reform
- The Structure of the Theory of Communicative Action
- Central Problems in the Theory of Action
- Communicative Rationality and Communicative Action
- Communicative Rationality
- Argumentation
- Rational Action and Validity Claims
- Validity of Expression and Justification
- Universal Acceptance
- Communicative Action
- Lifeworld and System
- Lifeworld—Implicit Knowledge and Context
- Lifeworld and Formal World-Concepts
- Narrowness of Culturalistic Concept of Lifeworld
- The Role of Systems
- Rationalization of the Lifeworld
- Development of Law and Morality—An Aspect of the Rationalization of the Lifeworld
- Contingency and Ideologies
- Two Types of Action and the Two Mechanisms of Their Coordination
- Dangers and the Possibility to Overcome Them
- Reification and Cultural Impoverishment
- Proving the Thesis on Reification—Juridification
- Legal Institutions
- Overcoming Dangers
- Competition of Social Integration Principles
- Communicative Rationality and Communicative Action
- Constructing a Theory
- Toward Universal Validity of Our Understanding of Rationality
- Proof
- No Ultimate Justifications—No Fundamentalist Claims
- Are Validity Claims Universal?
- Toward Social Theory
- Social Theory—Societal Rationalization
- The Ideal of the Fully Rational Life-Form—Utopianism
- Cooperative Effort
- Communication—Premises and Arguments (Ethics of Discourse)
- Communication, History, and the Unity of Reason
- Toward Modern Society
- Recapitulation
- Introduction
- IV On the Convergence of the Perspectives of Rorty and Habermas
- The Convergence
- Different Rhetoric
- Rorty’s Fear of Idealization
- Idealized Rational Acceptability
- Presence of Idealization in the Philosophies of Habermas and Rorty
- They Do Not Differ That Much
- New Worlds
- Creating New Worlds
- Validity Claims
- Rorty against the Idea of Communicative Rationality
- Necessary Communicative Rationality
- Difference
- Issue of Understanding Human Nature
- To Recapitulate: Much in Common
- What Kind of Politics?
- Democracy
- Liberal Democracy without Philosophical Justification
- Proceduralist Deliberative Politics
- Toward Freedom as Responsibility
- Two Concepts of Liberty
- Rorty—Against the “Positive” Version of Freedom
- Common Moral Convictions
- Beyond Truth—Advocating Pluralism
- Decentered Vision of the World
- Reaching Understanding and Reproduction
- Toward a Compromise
- Concrete Values
- Responsibility to Our Community
- For Us to Be Better
- Not to Hurt
- Resigning from Violence
- Toward Responsible Freedom
- To Take Responsibility
- Toward Liberal Utopia
- Social Hope
- Liberal Society
- Communication and Complications
- On Role of Philosophy and Philosophers, and on Responsibility
- The Convergence
- V Postscript: From Dewey to Rorty and Habermas
- The Main Themes
- Philosophy
- From Truth to Freedom
- Democracy—One of the Ways
- Progress and Free Communication
- Pragmatism and Utopias
- Conclusion
- Aims
- Validity Claims
- Formal Conditions
- Arriving at a Consensus
- Answering the Main Question
- What to Do in Order for It Not to Happen Again?
- It Will Be the Way We Decide
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
