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...
| Veröffentlicht in: | International journal of public theology |
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| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Brill
2017
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International journal of public theology
Jahr: 2017, Band: 11, Heft: 1, Seiten: 88-109 |
| RelBib Classification: | AB Religionsphilosophie; Religionskritik; Atheismus VB Logik; philosophische Hermeneutik; philosophische Erkenntnislehre |
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Epistemology
public square
postmodernism
Deweyian progressivism
Wittgenstein
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| Zusammenfassung: | 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 as well as his insistence on the humility and virtues that should attend the collective pursuit of the social good. It suggests that there are two Rortys at work and that his epistemological ambivalence undermines the force of his argument. |
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| ISSN: | 1569-7320 |
| Enthält: | In: International journal of public theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15697320-12341473 |