After Philosophy: End or Transformation? - Softcover

Baynes, Kenneth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 026252113X ISBN 13: 9780262521130

Publisher: Mit Pr, 1986

Synopsis

After Philosophy provides an excellent framework for understanding the most important strains of current philosophical work in North America, England, France, and Germany. The selections from the work of fourteen contemporary philosophers not only display the multiplicity of approaches being pursued since the breakup of any consensus on what philosophy is, but also help to clarify this proliferation of views and to spell out today's basic options for doing, or not doing, philosophy today. With a general introduction delineating what is in dispute between the different parties to the end-of-philosophy debates, brief introductions to the thought of each author, and suggestions for further reading following each selection, After Philosophy is ideally suited for use in any course that includes an overview of the bewildering variety of contemporary approaches to philosophy.

Major Sections and Contributors
I. The End of Philosophy. Richard Rorty Jean-François Lyotard, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida. II. The Transformation of Philosophy: Systematic Proposals. Donald Davidson, Michael Dummett, Hilary Putnam, Karl-Otto Apel, Jürgen Habermas. III. The Transformation of Philosophy: Hermeneutics, Narrative, Rhetoric. Hans-Georg Gadamer, Paul Ricoeur, Alasdair Maclntyre, Hans Blumenberg, Charles Taylor.

About this title

About the Author:

Kenneth Baynes is currently doing postgraduate research at the University of Frankfurt.

From Library Journal:

These essays, all recent works by philosophers from America, France, England, and Germany, have been grouped to address the question whether philosophy is still a valid pursuit. Arguing for the end of philosophy are Rorty, Lyotard, Foucault, and Derrida. Arguing that it is instead in a state of transition are Davidson, Dummett, Putnam, Apel, Habermas, Gadamer, Ricoeur, MacIntyre, Blumenberg, and Taylor (who contributes the only original essay). There is an introductory essay, brief explanations of each author's thought, and suggestions for further reading. An excellent overview of the variety of contemporary, international approaches to philosophy that will be of interest to informed laypersons as well as scholars. Leon H. Brody, U.S. Office of Personnel Management Lib., Washington, D.C.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Mit Pr
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 026252113X
• ISBN 13: 9780262521130
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 300