Pragmatism, critique, judgment : essays for Richard J. Bernstein / edited by Seyla Benhabib and Nancy Fraser.

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Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2004.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Seyla Benhabib and Nancy Fraser
  • 1. Philosophy as a transitional genre / Richard Rorty
  • 2. The moral and the ethical : a reconsideration of the issue of the priority of the right over the good / Jurgen Habermas
  • 3. "... Ergo sum" - between poetry and philosophy / Geoffrey Hartman
  • 4. What is pragmatism? / Charles Taylor
  • 5. Hegel's aphorisms about "the true" / Yirmiyahu Yovel
  • 6. Institutionalizing democratic justice : redistribution, recognition, and participation / Nancy Fraser
  • 7. Political philosophy and racial injustice : from normative to critical theory / Thomas McCarthy
  • 8. Kantian questions, Arendtian answers : statelessness, cosmopolitanism, and the right to have rights / Seyla Benhabib
  • 9. Capital punishment : another "temptation of theodicy" / Jacques Derrida
  • 10. Memory traces, archive, historical truth, and the return of the repressed : on the rediscovery of Freud's Moses / Agnes Heller
  • 11. Omnipotence and radical evil : on a possible rapprochement between Hannah Arendt and psychoanalysis / Joel Whitebook
  • 12. Reflecting on judgment : common sense and a common world / Jerome Kohn
  • 13. Semprun and the experience of radical evil / Carol L. Bernstein
  • 14. The seventh demon : reflections on absolute evil and the Holocaust / Shoshana Yovel
  • 15. A philosopher from New York / Judith Friedlander
  • Works by Richard J. Bernstein.

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