{"product_id":"critical-encounters-fred-dallmayr-9780268007744","title":"Critical Encounters: Between Philosophy and Politics","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCritical Encounters\u003c\/em\u003e, a study of contemporary philosophy and political and social theory, inserts itself into ongoing conversations at the junctures of philosophy and political thought, and modernity and post-modernism. Through dialogue and critique Fred R. Dallmayr seeks to find a viable path for political theory in the midst of contemporary discussions in philosophy and the social sciences, discussions influenced or overshadowed by twentieth-century phenomenology, hermeneutics, critical theory, structuralism, pragmatism, and deconstruction.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDallmayr's perspective is delivered not as direct exposition, but through a series of critical encounters with some of the leading spokesmen of contemporary thought. His path points in the direction of a political theory construed as \"practical ontology\" or a pragmatism with ontological overtones. Dallmayr presupposes that such a renewed ontology can be articulated as only a strand in a larger conversational fabric. Against this weave he profiles his critical responses and engaging dialogues.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmong the voices to which Dallmayr responds are: Apel's linguistic foundationalism; Habermas's bifurcation of instrumental system and life-world; Ricoeur's phenomenological antinomies; Gadamer's lingering hermeneutical idealism; Derrida's preference for nihilation of being; Bernstein's Deweyan pragmatism; and Macintyre's pragmatic traditionalism. Among contemporary social and political theorists attention is given to Giddens, Luhmann, and Theunissen.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Fred Dallmayr\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0268007748\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780268007744\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Notre Dame Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/31\/1987\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 310\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.16lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.02h x 6.06w x 0.94d","brand":"Fred Dallmayr","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46233197871359,"sku":"9780268007744","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_2667ca3c-d7e9-49ec-873b-fb43db352894.jpg?v=1728992343","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/critical-encounters-fred-dallmayr-9780268007744","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}