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This work explores the philosophical positions of five postmodern thinkers - Lyotard, Rorty, Schrag, Foucault, and Derrida. It shows how their critiques imply that scholars are unduly limited by the belief that phenomena exist prior to and independent of enquiry and persist unchanged subsequently.

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This work explores the philosophical positions of five postmodern thinkers - Lyotard, Rorty, Schrag, Foucault, and Derrida - to show how their critiques imply that scholars are limited by the belief that inquiry is about gaining knowledge of phenomena that are assumed to exist prior to and independent of inquiry.

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Professors Murphy and Choi use postmodern philosophy to expose a source of racism and cultural domination. They examine "foundationalism," which they see at the core of the Western intellectual tradition and which is shown to foster a metaphysics of domination. By contrast, postmodernism undermines this root of racism.

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Cornelius Castoriadis (1922-1997) was a philosopher, social critic, political activist, practicing psychoanalyst and professional economist. This collection of interviews discusses some of his most important ideas with leading figures in the disciplines that play such a crucial part in his philosophical work: poetry, psychoanalysis, and biology.

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Cornelius Castoriadis (1922-1997) was a philosopher, social critic, political activist, practicisn psychoanalyst and professional economist. This title discusses some of his most important ideas with leading figures in the disciplines that play such a crucial part in his philosophical work: poetry, psychoanalysis, biology and mathematics.

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Power: A philosophical analysis is the first full-length attempt to analyse what we mean when we talk about power. This revised second edition includes an extended new forward which brings the book up to date by discussing recent developments in the literature, including those which were initiated by the first appearance of this book. -- .

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Examines the relationship between two apparently contradictory philosophical tendencies - realism and relativism. This book establishes a taxonomy of different kinds of realism and relativism. It looks at the various relationships in the light of two major developments in modern philosophy - the concern for praxis and the concern for historicity.

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Examines the relationship between two apparently contradictory philosophical tendencies - realism and relativism. This book establishes a taxonomy of different kinds of realism and relativism. It looks at the various relationships in the light of two major developments in modern philosophy - the concern for praxis and the concern for historicity.

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The emphasis in this volume is on the interrelations between the philosophical or foundational issues raised by pragmatism as a philosophical movement, and the cultural, political, and educational programs that have been associated with pragmatism from James, Dewey, and Mead to Rorty and Cornel West.

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The emphasis in this volume is on the interrelations between the philosophical or foundational issues raised by pragmatism as a philosophical movement, and the cultural, political, and educational programs that have been associated with pragmatism from James, Dewey, and Mead to Rorty and Cornel West.

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Willard Van Orman Quine was an analytic philosopher of the second half of the twentieth century. This book is devoted to defend Quine's indeterminacy of translation doctrine. The author adopts a critical and nuanced approach to Quine's texts, showing that Quine sometimes changed his positions and was not always as clear and consistent.

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W V Quine was the most important naturalistic philosopher of the twentieth century and a major impetus for the resurgence of the view that empirical science is our best avenue to knowledge. This book examines Quine's naturalism.

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Through investigation of Quine's views regarding language, knowledge and reality, the author offers a new interpretation of Quine's naturalism.

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The contributors represent the complete spectrum of positions between a relativism that challenges the very concept of a single world and the idea that there are ascertainable, objective universals.

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A comprehensive introduction to and exploration of Jacques Derrida's landmark 1967 text. This title explores Derrida's work through readings of key passages by such scholars as Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, J. Hillis Miller and Avital Ronnell.