Book description
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.
"A superb book. It combines two strong qualities rarely seen
together: it makes an insightful and extremely valuable contribution
to the philosophical issues on a central matter [and] is at the
cutting edge of the subject."-Charles Taylor
Richard J. Bernstein is Vera List Professor, Graduate Faculty, at the
New School for Social Research and Chair of the Department of
Philosophy. He is the author of numerous books, including these also
available from the University of Pennsylvania Press: The Restructuring
of Social and Political Theory and Praxis and Action: Contemporary
Philosophies of Human Activity.
