Confines of Democracy

Essays on the Philosophy of Richard J. Bernstein
Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-90-04-30004-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 285, 260 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 431 g

Reihe: Value Inquiry Book Series / Central European Value Studies

The topics addressed by Richard J. Bernstein in his extensive and illuminating work span the stream of contemporary thought in several directions: ethics, politics, epistemology, philosophy of history, and social theory. In reflecting on them Bernstein has played an intermediary role between the most recognizable product of American philosophical tradition, i.e. Pragmatism, and such central trends in European 20th century thought as Marxism, Psychoanalysis, Critical Theory, and Hermeneutics.
In this volume a host of prominent scholars from the United States, Europe, and Latin America pays tribute to Bernstein’s lifelong reflection on such present human problems as: the achievements and the dilemmas of modern societies, the legitimation crisis of democracy, the uses and abuses of public space, the role of scientific knowledge and technology in shaping the modern life, the ethical and political interplay between identity and community, and the preconditions and limits of understanding in multicultural contexts.
The fifteen essays in this book, accompanied by separate replies by Bernstein, are organized in four sections: “Bernstein, Rorty and American Pragmatism,” “Epistemology and Hermeneutics,” “Good, Evil and Judgment,” and “Democratic Vistas.” As Prof. Bernstein declares in his Preface, these “contributions are expressions of my own commitment to engaged fallibilistic pluralism.”

Autoren/Hrsg.

Del Castillo, Ramón

Faerna, Ángel M

Hickman, Larry A

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Demokratie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: 20./21. Jahrhundert

Inhaltsverzeichnis

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION
Ramón del Castillo, Ángel M. Faerna and Larry A. Hickman

PREFACE
Richard J. Bernstein

Part One:

BERNSTEIN, RORTY AND AMERICAN PRAGMATISM

ONE A Tale of Two Dicks
Robert Westbrook

TWO A Conversation between Friends:
The Ironist and the Pragmatic Fallibilist
Santiago Rey

A Reply to Robert Westbrook and Santiago Rey
Richard J. Bernstein

THREE Two Tales about Pragmatism and European Philosophy
(With an Introductory Family Tale)
Carlos Thiebaut

A Reply to Carlos Thiebaut
Richard J. Bernstein

FOUR Bernstein on the Narrative and Identity of
Pragmatism in America
Gregory Fernando Pappas

A Reply to Gregory Fernando Pappas
Richard J. Bernstein

Part Two:

EPISTEMOLOGY AND HERMENEUTICS

FIVE Beyond Objectivism and Relativism (Again)
John Ryder

A Reply to John Ryder
Richard J. Bernstein

SIX Relativism, Good and Bad.
Bernstein on the Pragmatic Conception of Objectivity
Ángel M. Faerna

A Reply to Ángel M. Faerna
Richard J. Bernstein

SEVEN An “Engaged Fallibilistic Pluralism”
Juan Carlos Mougán

EIGHT Hermeneutics, Practical Philosophy and the Ontology
of Community: Witt¬genstein, Gadamer and Bernstein
Núria Sara Miras Boronat

A Reply to Juan Carlos Mougán and
Núria Saras Miras Boronat
Richard J. Bernstein

Part Three:

GOOD, EVIL AND JUDGMENT

NINE Pragmatism, Westerns and Evil.
Remarks on Richard J. Bernstein and Forgiveness
Federico Penelas

A Reply to Federico Penelas
Richard J. Bernstein

TEN Critical Common Sense, Exemplary Doubting,
and Reflective Judgment
Heidi Salaverría

A Reply to Heidi Salaverría
Richard J. Bernstein

ELEVEN Enlightenment, Utility and Terror
Antonio Gómez Ramos

A Reply to Antonio Gómez Ramos
Richard J. Bernstein
Part Four
DEMOCRATIC VISTAS

TWELVE Bernstein on Deweyan Democracy
James Campbell

A Reply to James Campbell
Richard J. Bernstein

THIRTEEN Reconstruction of Democratic Experience
Alicia García Ruiz

A Reply to Alicia García Ruiz
Richard J. Bernstein

FOURTEEN Bernstein between Habermas and Rorty:
A Deweyan Reconstruction
Larry A. Hickman

A Reply to Larry A. Hickman
Richard J. Bernstein

FIFTEEN Listening Without Banisters.
Bernstein and Habermas on Democratic Ethos
Ramón Del Castillo

A Reply to Ramón del Castillo
Richard J. Bernstein

Über Autor(innen)

Ramón del Castillo is member of the Executive Committee of the Richard Rorty Society, Co-Director of the Dewey Center in Spain, and Professor of Contemporary Philosophy and Cultural Studies at UNED (Spain). He is the author of Conocimiento y acción. El giro pragmático de la filosofía (1995) and of a large number of essays on pragmatism and American culture.

Ángel M. Faerna is Professor of Philosophy at UCLM (Spain). He is the author of Introducción a la teoría pragmatista del conocimiento (1996). He has published essays on pragmatism and epistemology, and has translated into Spanish works by Santayana, Dewey, and Rorty.

Larry A. Hickman is Director of the Center for Dewey Studies, Professor of Philosophy at SIU Carbondale (USA), and a prominent scholar on classical and contemporary pragmatism. His publications have been translated into ten languages and he holds honorary doctorates from Soka University (Japan) and the University of Cologne (Germany).