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Morality and social criticism : the force of reasons in discursive practice

Title
Morality and social criticism : the force of reasons in discursive practice / Richard Amesbury.
Author
Amesbury, Richard, 1972-
Publication
Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.

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Description
xix, 214 pages; 23 cm
Summary
  • "Post-Enlightenment philosophy rejects the aspiration to step outside language and practice in order to view their conformity to reality from 'sideways on'. Consequently - it has been argued - we ought to regard ourselves as answerable to one another rather than to the world or the moral law. But in rejecting the notion of objectivity in favor of a purely epistemic conception of validity, Amesbury contends, we forfeit important resources required for criticizing and reforming our respective societies. In Morality and Social Criticism, Amesbury brings recent developments in Anglo-American philosophy into engagement with dominant currents in contemporary European social theory in order to articulate a pragmatic account of moral criticism.
  • Presented in a lively and accessible style Morality and Social Criticism moves the debate over critical theory beyond the alternatives provided by discourse ethics and deconstruction by arguing for a conception of moral objectivity that is grounded in the discursive practice of reason exchange."--Jacket.
Subject
  • Ethics
  • Critical theory
  • Ethics
  • ethics (philosophy)
  • critical theories (dialectical critiques)
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Solidarity and Dissent: Rorty and the "Consequences of Pragmatism" -- The Force of Reasons: Habermas on Norms and Justification -- Norms, Interpretation, and Decision-Making: Derrida on Justice -- Norms and Normativity: Between Regulism and Regularism -- "In the Beginning was the Deed": The Ungrounded Grounds of Rational Criticism -- Agreeing to Disagree: Toward a More Capacious Conception of Tradition -- The Return of Objectivity: Realism without (Rampant) Platonism -- Postscript: Doing Justice: Criticism and Philosophy.
ISBN
  • 1403938229
  • 9781403938220
LCCN
  • 2004060598
  • 9781403938220
OCLC
  • ocm56840582
  • 56840582
  • SCSB-1366573
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library