The Modernist-postmodernist Quarrel on Philosophy and Justice: A Possible Levinasian MediationThis book examines the social relevance of philosophy as this problem is posed in the contemporary Modernism-Postmodernism debate. Manuel P. Arriaga critically investigates the two sides of the debate in their various presuppositions and their equally diverse ramifications in fields ranging from political theory, philosophy of religion, and theory of knowledge, among others. Making use of the problematic of social justice as touchstone in threshing out the issue and aided particularly by the thought of Emmanuel Levinas, Arriaga then presents a view of the social relevance of philosophy that incorporates the good points of the opposing camps of the debate. The Modernist-Postmodernist Quarrel on Philosophy and Justice will interest anyone wishing to ask about the social relevance of what philosophers do. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Framing the Issue | 11 |
Modernism Critical Theory and Haber mass Reconstructive Science | 29 |
Habermass Discourse Ethics and the Question of Justice | 53 |
JeanFrancois Lyotard Justice Philosophy and Undecidability | 71 |
Richard Rorty on the Social Irrelevance of Philosophy | 97 |
The Dichotomy in LiberallyInspired Views of Justice | 131 |
Common terms and phrases
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