Epistemological Ambivalence: Richard Rorty on Religion and Public Discourse
The late Richard Rorty famously argued that faith-based positions grounded in comprehensive worldviews or unassailable texts served as ‘conversation-stoppers’ and should be excluded from the public sphere. This article argues that Rorty’s position flies in the face of his own postmodern epistemology...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Brill
2017
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International journal of public theology
Year: 2017, Volume: 11, Issue: 1, Pages: 88-109 |
RelBib Classification: | AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism VB Hermeneutics; Philosophy |
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Epistemology
public square
postmodernism
Deweyian progressivism
Wittgenstein
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