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Philosophy and the Idea of Freedom.

Bhaskar, Roy.

Philosophy and the Idea of Freedom. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (241 pages) - Classical Texts in Critical Realism (Routledge Critical Realism) Series . - Classical Texts in Critical Realism (Routledge Critical Realism) Series .

Intro -- Philosophy and the Idea of Freedom -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations in the text -- Section One Anti-Rorty -- Part I Knowledge -- 1 Rorty's account of science -- 2 Pragmatism, epistemology and the inexorability of realism -- Part II Agency -- 3 The essential tension of Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature - or a tale of two Rortys -- 4 How is freedom possible? -- Part III Politics -- 5 Self-defining versus social engineering - poetry and politics: the problem-field of Contingency, irony and solidarity -- 6 Rorty's apologetics -- Part IV Kibitzing -- 7 Reference, fictionalism and radical negation -- 8 Rorty's changing conceptions of philosophy -- Section Two For Critical Realism -- 9 Critical realism in context -- Appendix 1 Social theory and moral philosophy -- Appendix 2 Marxist philosophy from Marx to Althusser -- General index -- Name index.

9781136967016


Critical realism.


Electronic books.

B945.R524.B43 2011

191

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