Sometimes always true : undogmatic pluralism in politics, metaphysics, and epistemology / Jeremy Barris.

Author
Barris, Jeremy [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
First edition.
Published/​Created
New York : Fordham University Press, 2015.
Description
xi, 302 pages ; 25 cm

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    Subject(s)
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references ( p. 281-291) and index.
    Contents
    • Comparing different cultural or theoretical frameworks: Davidson, Rorty, and the nature of truth
    • An internal connection between logic and rhetoric, between frameworks, and a legitimate foundation for knowledge
    • Pluralism, legitimate self-contradiction, and a proposed solution to some shared fundamental problems of political and mainstream epistemology
    • The logic of genuine political pluralism and Oscar Wilde's artificiality of wit and style
    • Foucault's pluralism and the possibility of truth and of ideology critique
    • How to be properly unnatural: the metaphysics of heterosexual normativity and the importance of concepts of essence and nature for pluralism
    • The necessary inconclusiveness of Heideggerian interpretation of metaphysics and the undecided nature of essential or logical connection
    • The formal structure of metaphysics and the Importance of being Earnest
    • The logical structure of dreams and their relation to reality
    • Coda: overview.
    ISBN
    • 9780823262144 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
    • 0823262146 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
    • 0823262170
    • 9780823262175
    LCCN
    2014008830
    OCLC
    882553238
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