{"product_id":"rorty-liberal-democracy-and-religious-neil-gascoigne-9783030254537","title":"Rorty, Liberal Democracy, and Religious Certainty","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book asks whether there any limits to the sorts of religious considerations that can be raised in public debates, and if there are, by whom they are to be identified. Its starting point is the work of Richard Rorty, whose pragmatic pluralism leads him to argue for a politically motivated anticlericalism rather than an epistemologically driven atheism. Rather than defend Rorty's position directly, Gascoigne argues for an epistemological stance he calls 'Pragmatist Fideism'.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe starting point for this exercise in what Rorty calls 'Cultural Politics' is an acknowledgement that one must appeal to both secularists \u003ci\u003eand \u003c\/i\u003ethose with religious commitments. In recent years 'reformed' epistemologists have aimed to establish a parity of epistemic esteem between religious and perceptual beliefs by exploiting an analogy in respect of their mutual vulnerability to sceptical challenges. Through an examination of this analogy, and in light of Wittgenstein's \u003ci\u003eOn Certainty\u003c\/i\u003e, this book argues that understood correctly the 'parity' argument in fact lends epistemological support to the argument that religious considerations should not be raised in public debate. The political price paid--paying the price of politics--is worth it: the religious thinker is provided with a good reason for maintaining that their practices and beliefs are not undermined by other forms of religious life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Neil Gascoigne\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 3030254534\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9783030254537\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Palgrave Pivot\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/09\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 115\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.68lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.38d","brand":"Neil Gascoigne","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48089057820927,"sku":"9783030254537","price":54.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_3c537485-fa41-4007-8145-c842d99cdfe7.jpg?v=1769107962","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/rorty-liberal-democracy-and-religious-neil-gascoigne-9783030254537","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}