Practice of Political Theory - Rorty and Continental Thought

Clayton Chin presents a critical reconstruction of the work of Richard Rorty that argues that that Rorty provides us with unrecognized tools for resolving key foundational issues. The Practice of Political Theory is an important response to the vexed questions of justification and pluralism.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Part I: Rorty and Political Thinking
Introduction. Theory and Method: Reconstructing Rorty
1. The Authority of the Social: A Pragmatic Ethos of Inquiry
Part II: Rorty and Continental Political Thought: Ontology, Naturalism, and History
2. Theorizing After Foundations: Ontology, Language, and Heidegger
3. Reconstructing Naturalism: Pragmatic or Ontological?
4. History and Modernity: Self-Assertion and Critical Reflexivity
Part III: Rorty and Contemporary Political Theory: Pragmatic Sociopolitical Criticism
5. Pragmatic Political Thinking and Contemporary Critical Social Theory
6. How Pragmatism Constrains and Enables Political Thinking
Notes
References
Index

About the author

Clayton Chin is senior lecturer in political theory at the University of Melbourne.

Summary

Clayton Chin presents a critical reconstruction of the work of Richard Rorty that argues that that Rorty provides us with unrecognized tools for resolving key foundational issues. The Practice of Political Theory is an important response to the vexed questions of justification and pluralism.

Additional text

Chin has provided an indispensable contribution to thinking about Rorty, pragmatism, and new paths for political theory.

Product details

• Authors: Clayton Chin
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2021
• EAN: 9780231173995
• ISBN: 978-0-231-17399-5
• No. of pages: 312
• Series: New Directions in Critical Theory
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; PHILOSOPHY / Political, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Pragmatism, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Critical Theory, Social & political philosophy, Political science & theory, social and political philosophy, Political science and theory