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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
- 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