Philosophy and the idea of freedom / Roy Bhaskar.

Author/creator Bhaskar, Roy
Format Electronic
Edition[Rev. ed.].
Publication InfoLondon ; New York : Routledge,
Descriptionxxviii, 202 p. ; 23 cm.
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Contents Section I: Anti-Rorty -- Knowledge -- Rorty's account of science -- Pragmatism, epistemology, and the inexorability of realism -- Agency -- The essential tension of philosophy and the mirror of nature or a tale of two Rortys -- How is freedom possible? -- Politics -- Self-defining versus social engineering poetry and politics : the problem-field of contingency, irony, and solidarity -- Rorty's apologetics -- Reference, fictionalism and radical negation -- Rorty's changing conceptions of philosophy -- Section II: For critical realism -- Critical realism in context -- Appendix 1: Social theory and moral philosophy -- Appendix 2: Marxist philosophy from Marx to Althusser.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and indexes.
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LCCN 2009047777
ISBN9780415579650 (hardback : alk. paper)
ISBN9780415579643 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN9780203851098 (ebook)
ISBN0415579651 (hardback : alk. paper)
ISBN0415579643 )pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0203851099 (ebook)

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