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Bernstein, Richard Jacob was born on May 14, 1932 in New York City. Son of Henry S. and Anna (Halperin) Bernstein.
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Philosophical Profiles brings together ten important essays by Richard Berstein. Each focuses on the work of a thinker or group of thinkers at the center of contemporary developments in philosophy, including Hannah Arendt, John Dewey, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Jurgen Habermas, G.W.F. Hegel, Alasdair MacIntyre, Herbert Marcuse, and Richard Rorty.
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( Drawing freely and expertly from Continental and analyt...)
Drawing freely and expertly from Continental and analytic traditions, Richard Bernstein examines a number of debates and controversies exemplified in the works of Gadamer, Habermas, Rorty, and Arendt. He argues that a "new conversation" is emerging about human rationality—a new understanding that emphasizes its practical character and has important ramifications both for thought and action.
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In this volume, Bernstein forsees and outlines the development of a social theory that is at once empirical, interpretive, and critical.
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All of these essays focus on the concept of modernity in the philosophical work of Jurgen Habermas - an ambitious and carefully argued intellectual project that invites, indeed demands, rigorous scrutiny. Following an introductory overview of Habermas's work by Richard Bernstein, Albrecht Wellmer's essay places the philosopher within the tradition of Hegel, Marx, Weber, and Critical Theory. Martin Jay discusses Habermas's views on art and aesthetics, and Joel Whitebook examines his interpretations of Freud and psychoanalysis, Anthony Giddens offers a critical reading of Habermas's major work, "The Theory of Communicative Action. Richard Rorty criticizes the whole thrust of his program by way of a comparison with the work of the French philosopher of postmodernity, Jean-Francois Lyotard. And Thomas McCarthy concentrates on the question of the selectivity of rationalization processes in the modern age. Habermas himself has three contributions - on Marcuse, on neoconservativism, and a reply to the other essayists. Richard J. Bernstein is T. Wistar Brown Professor of Philosophy at Haverford College. He was editor of the journal "Praxis International, in which these essays recently appeared. "Habermas and Modernity "is included in the series Studies in contemporary German Social Thought, edited by Thomas McCarthy.
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During the last two decades Richard Bernstein has established a worldwide reputation as one of the few philosophers able to bridge different traditions of thought and to clarify, through sympathetic criticism, the key intellectual issues of our time. In these 10 essays he explores the ethical and political dimensions of the modernity/postmodernity debates.Bernstein argues that modernity/postmodernity should be understood as a pervasive mood - what Heidegger calls a Stimmung - one that is amorphous, shifting, and protean but that nevetheless exerts a powerful influence on our current ways of thinking and acting. Focusing on such thinkers as Heidegger, Derrida, Foucault, Rorty, and Habermas, Bernstein seeks to demonstrate the strengths and weaknesses of their work and to highlight the ways in which they have contributed to the formation of a new and distinctive constellation of ideas and themes.Richard J. Bernstein is Vera List Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research.The Essays: Philosophy, History, and Critique. The Rage Against Reason. Incommensurability and Otherness Revisited. Heidegger's Silence? Ethos and Technology. Foucault: Critique as a Philosophic Ethos. Serious Play: The Ethical-Political Horizon of Derrida. An Allegory of Modernity/Postmodernity: Habermas and Derrida. One Step Forward, Two Steps Backward: Rorty on Liberal Democracy. Rorty's Liberal Utopia, Reconciliation/Rupture.
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( From the Introduction: This inquiry is concerned with ...)
From the Introduction: This inquiry is concerned with the themes of praxis and action in four philosophic movements: Marxism, existentialism, pragmatism, and analytic philosophy. It is rare that these four movements are considered in a single inquiry, for there are profound differences of emphasis, focus, terminology, and approach represented by these styles of thought. Many philosophers believe that similarities among these movements are superficial and that a close examination of them will reveal only hopelessly unbridgeable cleavages. While respecting the genuine fundamental differences of these movements, this inquiry is undertaken in the spirit of showing that there are important common themes and motifs in what first appears to be a chaotic babble of voices. I intend to show that the concern with man as an agent has been a primary focal point of each of these movements and further that each contributes something permanent and important to our understanding of the nature and context of human activity.
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Bernstein, Richard Jacob was born on May 14, 1932 in New York City. Son of Henry S. and Anna (Halperin) Bernstein.
Bachelor, University Chicago, 1951. Bachelor of Science, Columbia, 1953. Master of Arts, Yale University, 1955.
Doctor of Philosophy, Yale University, 1958.
Member faculty Yale, 1954—1966. Associate professor philosophy, 1964—1966. Professor philosophy, chairman department Haverford College, 1966—1978.
T. Wistar Brown professor, 1979—1989. Vera List professor, chair grad faculty New School Social Research. Fulbright lecturer Hebrew University, 1957—1958.
Visiting professor, 1966—1967, Catholic University American, 1974, University Pennsylvania, 1975, Graduate Faculty, New School, 1981—1982, 1984.
( During the last two decades Richard Bernstein has estab...)
(All of these essays focus on the concept of modernity in ...)
( Drawing freely and expertly from Continental and analyt...)
( From the Introduction: This inquiry is concerned with ...)
( In this volume, Bernstein forsees and outlines the deve...)
(Praxis And Actions: Contemporary Philosophies Of Human Ac...)
( Philosophical Profiles brings together ten important es...)
Member faculty Yale, 1954-1966, associate.prof. philosophy, 1964-1966. Member American Philosophical Association (Executive Committee 1967-1970, vice president/president elect 1987), Metaphys. Society.Am. (president 1987), Philosophy of Education Society (director), Charles Sanders Peirce Society (president 1969), Fullerton.
Married Carol M. Lippit, September 11, 1955. Children: Robin, Andrea, Jeffrey, Daniel.