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Title: The New Constellation: Ethical-Political Horizons of Modernity/Postmodernity by Richard J. Bernstein ISBN: 0-262-52166-0 Publisher: MIT Press Pub. Date: 21 January, 1992 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $32.00 |
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Summary: Bridging Gulfs
Comment: Bernstein points out in the Introduction his inability to combine the subsequent essays into a single theme, generative principle, or common core. His way of characterizing the refractory nature of these strands is to liken them to a "constellation", which by definition contains elements resisting integration into a unified whole. Thus, the image of constellation stands as the book's central metaphor, and a characterization of how Western philosophy stands following the emergence of the post-modern "Stimmung" or "mood". Put in Hegelian terms, the "other" remains other, because the post-modern negation of reason offers no prospect of being reconciled into a more comprehensive whole. I think it's fair to say that for Bernstein, the "post" in post-modernism really does mean post. And though Bernstein doesn't emphasize the word, a thoroughly pluralist landscape would appear to be the result, a pluralism perhaps uniquely beyond all measure of integration.
Those who see the missing yet vital connecting strand in the triumph of a consumer mentality may find the work inadequate from the standpoint of broader cultural analysis. It's true, Bernstein does stick closely to the narrower philosophical level. Nevertheless, each essay represents a penetrating discussion of major post-moderns and their precursors, figures such as Foucault, Derrida, and Heidegger, along with more diverse thinkers, like Rorty, Habermas and MacIntyre. For me, the two most revealing chapters are the discussion of Heidegger and technology and Rorty's liberal utopia. The former makes a revealing connection between Heidegger's philosophy of Being and his refusal to disavow a Nazi past; while the latter illuminates an important theoretical issue confronting the post-moderns--- how to finesse the paradoxes facing an anti-foundationalist politics as it seeks to avoid outright nihilism. Despite the work's breadth, this is by no means the flabby work of an eclectic. Bernstein's reputation is built upon a sympathetic and fair-minded understanding of both Anglo-American and Continental traditions. This work is certainly no exception.
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Title: The Revival of Pragmatism: New Essays on Social Thought, Law, and Culture (Post-Contemporary Interventions) by Morris Dickstein ISBN: 0822322455 Publisher: Duke Univ Pr (Txt) Pub. Date: November, 1998 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: The Restructuring of Social and Political Theory by Richard J. Bernstein ISBN: 0812277422 Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Pub. Date: February, 1978 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Charles S. Peirce: The Essential Writings (Great Books in Philosophy) by Edward C. Moore, Charles S. Peirce, Richard Robin ISBN: 1573922560 Publisher: Prometheus Books Pub. Date: December, 1998 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Beyond Objectivism and Relativism: Science, Hermeneutics, and Praxis by Richard J. Bernstein ISBN: 0812211650 Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Pub. Date: November, 1983 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Pragmatism : A Reader by Louis Menand ISBN: 0679775447 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 07 October, 1997 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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