The Practice of Political Theory

Rorty and Continental Thought
Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-0-231-17398-8
Verlag: Columbia University Press

Buch, Englisch, 312 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 235 mm x 161 mm, Gewicht: 580 g

Reihe: New Directions in Critical Theory

Recent political thought has grappled with a crisis in philosophical foundations: How do we justify the explicit and implicit normative claims and assumptions that guide political decisions and social criticism? In The Practice of Political Theory, Clayton Chin presents a critical reconstruction of the work of Richard Rorty that intervenes in the current surge of methodological debates in political thought, arguing that Rorty provides us with unrecognized tools for resolving key foundational issues.

Chin illustrates the methodological achievements of Rorty’s thought and their significance for contemporary political thinking. He approaches Rorty in light of his later work and its conception of “philosophy as cultural politics” as a resource for new models of sociopolitical criticism. Chin juxtaposes Rorty with the ontological turn in political theory, casting them as two alternative pathways away from the crisis in foundations in philosophy and placing Rorty in dialogue with continental philosophy and those working within its legacy. Focused on both important questions in pragmatist scholarship and central issues in contemporary political thought, The Practice of Political Theory is an important response to the vexed questions of justification and pluralism that offers a practice-based approach to political theory.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chin, Clayton

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie

Über Autor(innen)

Clayton Chin is lecturer in political theory at the University of Melbourne.