Foreword by George Yancy
Editors’ Introduction
Prologue by Edward S. Casey: “Richard Bernstein and the Legacy of
Pluralism”
Section I: Judgment and Critique
Chapter 1: Michael Weinman
“Phronēsis in a Post-Metaphysical Age: Aristotle and Practical
Philosophy Today”
Chapter 2: Karen Ng
“Human Plurality and Precarious Life: Problems in Arendt’s Theory
of Judgment”
Chapter 3: Christopher P. Long
“Pragmatism and the Cultivation of Digital Democracies”
Chapter 4: Brendan Hogan and Lawrence Marcelle
“Any Democracy Worth Its Name: Bernstein’s Democratic Ēthos and a
Role for Representation”
Chapter 5: Marcia Morgan
“Critique, Dissidence, and Aesthetic Emancipation at the
Margins”
Chapter 6: Megan Craig
“Incommensurability and Solidarity: Building Coalitions with
Bernstein and Butler”
Section II: Hermeneutics and History
Chapter 7: Rocío Zambrana
“Bernstein’s Hegel”
Chapter 8: Espen Hammer
“Reading Husserl without Cartesian Anxiety”
Chapter 9: Lauren Barthold
“Acts of Betrayal: Gadamer and Hermeneutics”
Chapter 10: Katie Terezakis
“The Philosophy of Action in John William Miller and Richard J.
Bernstein”
Chapter 11: Megan Craig
“Interpreting Violence with Richard J. Bernstein”
Epilogue: Richard J. Bernstein
“Engaged Fallibilistic Pluralism”
Megan Craig is associate professor of philosophy and art at Stony
Brook University.
Marcia Morgan is associate professor of philosophy at Muhlenberg
College.
There is perhaps no greater legacy for a teacher like Richard
Bernstein than to see his students take upon themselves the
responsibility for moving forward conversations which he initiated.
Bernstein’s students extend, build upon and sometimes challenge his
arguments. His epilogue alone is worth the price, but the real
lesson comes as he responds to each argument with precision,
insight, and humility.
*Warren G. Frisina, Hofstra University*
Honoring Dick Bernstein (b. 1932), long-time professor of
philosophy at New School for Social Research, this collection is an
excellent reminder to those who have benefited over many years from
Bernstein’s scholarship and publications, e.g., Beyond Objectivism
and Relativism (CH, May'84), Praxis and Action (CH, Jul'72), and
critical appraisals of such figures as C. S. Peirce, William James,
John Dewey, Hannah Arendt, Hans Gadamer, and Jürgen Habermas. In
its own way each of the 11 essays explores what Bernstein called
"engaged fallibilistic pragmatism." The essays are presented under
two headings: "Judgment and Critique" and "Hermeneutics and
History." The breadth of Bernstein’s philosophical grasp is well
demonstrated. But more significantly described is his character as
a teacher promoting courage to hold firm to particular commitments
and encounter the truth through new questions and texts. As Lauren
Barthold puts it in her essay (“Acts of Betrayal: Gadamer and
Hermeneutics”), “To perpetuate a tradition and keep it alive
requires one to be open to applying it anew and living it out in
different ways.” This volume properly celebrates Bernstein and his
expansion of American philosophy. Summing Up: Recommended.
Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.
*CHOICE*
Of those philosophers whose tap-root was the revival of Classical
American philosophy, now sixty years of age, the most
philosophically cosmopolitan, by far, was the work of Richard
Bernstein. This book of trenchant essays in his honor, illustrates
once again Bernstein's rich grasp of the history of philosophy, its
contemporary European versions, and the utter necessity of having a
rich, thick, enlightening, and necessary philosophical pluralism.
With the philosophy of John Dewey as a "permanent deposit," Richard
Bernstein has led the way for many decades in how to think, act,
and create on behalf of a philosophical pluralism, one that
straddles and softens conflict, opens paths of agreement, and
bequeaths a philosophical tapestry of intellectual healing rather
than ideological rancor. Gratitude here for the scholars who have
sharpened and elucidated Bernstein's stellar contributions to
philosophical wisdom over the past fifty years.
*John J. McDermott, Texas A&M University*
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