Pragmatic liberalism and the critique of modernity book pdf download

Author: Gary Gutting

About the Author: Gary Gutting is a distinguished academic philosopher and a major contributor to public discussions of philosophical questions. He has taught for many years at the University of Notre Dame, where he holds the John A. O’Brien Chair in Philosophy. He is the author of seven academic books and editor of five others, and has published over forty articles. His main areas of research are philosophy of science, philosophy of religion, and twentieth-century French philosophy. For a wider audience, he is the author of Foucault: A Very Short Introduction, a volume that has been translated into 7 languages. Since June, 2011, he has been a regular contributor to the New York Times philosophy blog, The Stone, publishing over 100 columns and interviews. Other work for the Times includes analyses of the 2012 Presidential Debates for “Campaign Stops” and essays in the Sunday Review. His recent book, What Philosophy Can Do, contains essays on politics, science, religion, education, and art that expand on his Stone columns. He has been interviewed on a number of radio and television broadcasts, including National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered” (with Richard Harris on climate policy), Canadian Broadcasting Television’s “Lang & O’Leary Exchange” (gun control), Sirius Radio’s “StandUp with Peter Dominick” (gun control), Cyberstation USA (religion and politics), and Al-Jazeera English TV (with Bob Reynolds on extraterrestrial life).

Pragmatic liberalism and the critique of modernity book pdf download By Gary Gutting

In this book Gary Gutting offers a powerful account of the nature of human reason in modern times. The fundamental question addressed by the book is what authority human reason can still claim once it is acknowledged that our fundamental metaphysical and religious pictures of the world no longer command allegiance. Gutting analyzes the work of three dominant philosophical voices in our time: Richard Rorty, Alasdair MacIntyre, and Charles Taylor. His own position is defined as “pragmatic liberalism.” The book will appeal to readers in such fields as philosophy, literature, and political theory. The interpretations of Rorty, MacIntyre, and Taylor will make the book suitable as a coursebook for those teaching the history of modern philosophy.

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