Richard J Bernstein
Biographic Data
| ID | 266307 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard J Bernstein |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard J |
| FAMILY NAME | Bernstein |
| SIGNATURE | BERNSTEIN R J |
| AFFILIATIONS | New School |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 87 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 571 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 87 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1967 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Rethinking Responsibility
This volume examines the concept of responsibility amidst current societal challenges that require its rethinking. Assigning responsibility to an agent proves problematic when technological or social structures have become too complex. Concepts of responsibility which retrospectively name a responsible party often fail due to this complexity, diffusing responsibility to a minimum that can no longer be perceived. The contributions explore the foun…
Richard J. Bernstein: Politics and Pragmatism
Professor Bernstein, thanks to your books we have become aware of the importance of fallibilism and the dangers of the Cartesian anxiety. So, to start our interview I would like to ask you: Do you see the Cartesian anxiety operating relevantly in the current philosophical landscape? Richard J. Bernstein: First of all, it is important to say that I do not see Cartesian anxiety only as an epistemological anxiety, but I see it as something that has …
Culture and Modernity: East-West Philosophic Perspectives
The Resurgence of Richard Rorty: Review of Richard Rorty’s Pragmatism as Anti-Authoritarianism
Violence: An Anthology
Pragmatic Naturalism: John Dewey’s Living Legacy
“Why [the Jews] Have Attracted This Undying Hatred”
In a 1934 letter to A. Zweig, Freud spoke of the undying hatred of the Jews and related this to his theses about the creation of the Jews by Moses developed in Moses and Monotheism. I explore what appear to be Freud’s outrageous claims in order to show how his insights can help us to understand recent outbreaks of anti-Semitic incidents. Freud was concerned about ever present danger of the breakout of hatred and the constant need to be vigilant i…
Enlarging the dialogue
“Why [the Jews] Have Attracted This Undying Hatred”
From Socialist Feminism to the Critique of Global Capitalism
Just Life: Bioethics and the Future of Sexual Difference by Mary C. Rawlinson
The prehistory of the Prague meetings
Hilary Putnam: The Pragmatist Enlightenment
Nietzsche Or Aristotle? Reflections on Alasdair MacIntyre's After Virtue
Alasdair MacIntyre's After Virtue reads like a brief but extremely dense novel: its plot gradually unfolds; it has its moments of suspense and discovery; there are climaxes and anti-climaxes. Indeed, it is written in that very genre of dramatic narrative that MacIntyre tells us is so vital for understanding human life and action. This should not be mistaken for a criticism, for if MacIntyre is right, this is precisely the genre required for under…
The Unresolved Problems of Late Critical Theory
Martin Jay's sweeping account of reason in Western philosophy provides the context for understanding the crisis that the Frankfurt School thinkers faced when they spoke of the "eclipse of reason." In the background of the thinking of the first generation of Frankfurt thinkers such as Max Horkheimer, Theodor Adorno, and Herbert Marcuse is a hankering for a more substantive conception of reason that bears affinities with what Hegel called Vernunft …
Cultural pluralism
The expression ‘cultural pluralism’ was popularized by Horace Kallen, a student of William James. I explore the meaning of pluralism in the context of the American pragmatic tradition with emphasis on the meaning of pluralism for William James. Kallen sought to characterize cultural pluralism in contrast with the idea of America as a ‘melting-pot’. I also examine the contributions of Randolph Bourne and the African-American philosopher Alain Lock…
Interview with Richard J. Bernstein
Can you recollect what the situation was concerning the study of pragmatism when
Marcuse's Critical Legacy
Response to Jeffrey Stout
Guest Editor's Introduction
"Political theology" has a narrower and broader meaning. In its narrower sense it concerns the specific questions that were so dramatically raised by Carl Schmitt about theology, the state, and politics. But in its broader meaning it refers to the complex issues that have arisen throughout the world about the meaning, significance, and boundaries (or lack of boundaries) among politics, religion, and theology. The papers included in this volume de…
Is Politics "Practicable" without Religion
I challenge the "presupposition strain" in political theology-the thesis that politics needs religion, that politics presupposes religion, and that we cannot make sense of politics without an appeal to transcendent theological concepts. I do this by critically examining Simon Critchley's claim that politics is not practicable with religion. Critchley shares a common framework with Carl Schmitt; it is this framework of political theology that need…
A New Literary History of America
America is a nation making itself up as it goes along-a story of discovery and invention unfolding in speeches and images, letters and poetry, unprecedented feats of scholarship and imagination. In these myriad, multiform, endlessly changing expressions of the American experience, the authors and editors of this volume find a new American history. In more than two hundred original essays, A New Literary History of America brings together the nati…
The Normative Core of the Public Sphere
Filosofía y democracia: John Dewey
Continuing the Conversation
I have consistently argued that the pragmatic tradition is enriched by the contribution of a plurality of voices. So I want to thank the contributors to this symposium for engaging with my work. I would like to begin my response with two general remarks. Although I have always identified myself with the pragmatic tradition, I have felt uneasy with the label “pragmatism.” And the reason is straightforward. As soon as we speak of any “ism” we are t…
The restructuring of social and political theory
The new constellation: The Ethical-Political Horizons of Modernity/Postmodernity
Habermas and Modernity
All of these essays focus on the concept of modernity in the philosophical work of Jurgen - an ambitious and carefully argued intellectual project that invites, indeed demands, rigorous scrutiny. Following an introductory overview of Habermas's work by Richard Bernstein, Albrecht Wellmer's essay places the philosopher within the tradition of Hegel, Marx, Weber, and Critical Theory. Martin Jay discusses Habermas's views on art and aesthetics, and …
Towards a Transformation of Philosophy
I. One Step Forward, Two Steps Backward: Richard Rorty on Liberal Democracy and Philosophy
The Coming Conflict with America
Praxis and Action: Contemporary Philosophies of Human Activity
"The ancient and modern question of what is the nature of man and his activity and what ought to be the directions pursued in this activity is once again being reaffirmed as a primary issue for reflective men."—from Praxis and Action
Hannah Arendt on the Stateless
I do not believe that there is any thought process possible without personal experience. Every thought is an afterthought (Nachdenken) that is, a reflection on some matter or event.1 In 1964 Hannah
The Normative Core of the Public Sphere
Derrida: The Aporia of Forgiveness
Rethinking the Social and the Political
Cultural pluralism
The expression ‘cultural pluralism’ was popularized by Horace Kallen, a student of William James. I explore the meaning of pluralism in the context of the American pragmatic tradition with emphasis on the meaning of pluralism for William James. Kallen sought to characterize cultural pluralism in contrast with the idea of America as a ‘melting-pot’. I also examine the contributions of Randolph Bourne and the African-American philosopher Alain Lock…
The Aporias of Carl Schmitt
Richard Rorty's Deep Humanism
Richard Rorty's Deep Humanism Richard J. Bernstein (bio) I first met Dick Rorty in 1949 when I went to the "Hutchins College" at the University of Chicago—the institution described by A. J. Liebling as "the biggest collection of juvenile neurotics since the Childrens' Crusade." Dick had already entered Chicago in 1946 at the age of fifteen and was beginning his MA in philosophy. After Chicago, Dick went on to Yale in 1952 for his doctoral studies…
Naturalism, Secularism, and Religion: Habermas's Via Media
Are Arendt's Reflections on Evil Still Relevant
The relevance of Arendt's reflections on evil is analyzed in three respects. She warns that the appeal to absolutes (good or evil) destroys politics; her claim that radical evil involves making human beings as human beings superfluous is relevant to contemporary concerns with the vast refugee and stateless populations; and her idea of the banality of evil focuses our attention on the evil deeds that persons commit even when they do not have evil …
II. Fred Dallmayr's Critique of Habermas
FRED DALLMAYR IS A POLITICAL THEORIST with a remarkable ability to engage in critical dialogue with a range of thinkers spanning what are all too frequently taken to be incompatible and even incommensurable traditions. There is scarcely a major thinker of the twentieth century that he has not encountered-always probing and interrogating them with sensitivity and judiciousness, seeking to bring forth new insights that pertain to politics. He is a …
The specter haunting multiculturalism
I argue that the specter haunting multiculturalism is incommensurability. In many discussions of multiculturalism there is a ‘picture’ that holds us captive — a picture of cultures, religious or ethnic groups that are self-contained and are radically incommensurable with each other. I explore and critique this concept of incommensurability. I trace the idea of incommensurability back to the discussion by Thomas Kuhn — and especially to the ways i…
Does PoMo Matter
Nietzsche Or Aristotle? Reflections on Alasdair MacIntyre's After Virtue
Alasdair MacIntyre's After Virtue reads like a brief but extremely dense novel: its plot gradually unfolds; it has its moments of suspense and discovery; there are climaxes and anti-climaxes. Indeed, it is written in that very genre of dramatic narrative that MacIntyre tells us is so vital for understanding human life and action. This should not be mistaken for a criticism, for if MacIntyre is right, this is precisely the genre required for under…
The Unresolved Problems of Late Critical Theory
Martin Jay's sweeping account of reason in Western philosophy provides the context for understanding the crisis that the Frankfurt School thinkers faced when they spoke of the "eclipse of reason." In the background of the thinking of the first generation of Frankfurt thinkers such as Max Horkheimer, Theodor Adorno, and Herbert Marcuse is a hankering for a more substantive conception of reason that bears affinities with what Hegel called Vernunft …
Interview with Richard J. Bernstein
Can you recollect what the situation was concerning the study of pragmatism when
Is Politics "Practicable" without Religion
I challenge the "presupposition strain" in political theology-the thesis that politics needs religion, that politics presupposes religion, and that we cannot make sense of politics without an appeal to transcendent theological concepts. I do this by critically examining Simon Critchley's claim that politics is not practicable with religion. Critchley shares a common framework with Carl Schmitt; it is this framework of political theology that need…
The Secular-Religious Divide: Kant's Legacy
I want to explore to philosophic origins of the modern conception of secularism. I plan to focus on the work of Spinoza, Kant, and Hegel. They were not secularists in the contemporary sense of the word --where the secular is sharply contrasted with the religious, but each of them interpreted religion in a manner that was compatible with an independent understanding of the secular. By exploring their thought, I want to expose the philosophic groun…
Richard Rorty’s Deep Humanism
lege at University of Chicago?the institution described by A. J. Liebling as the biggest collection of juvenile neurotics since Childrens' Crusade. Dick had already entered Chicago in 1946 at age of fifteen and was beginning his MA in philosophy. After Chicago, Dick went on to Yale in 1952 for his doctoral studies, and he encour aged several of his Chicago friends (including me) to join him. From those early Chicago and Yale days, we became close…
Perspectives on Peirce
Perspectives on Peirce: Critical Essays on Charles Saunders Peirce
Recognized as America's most original philosopher, Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914) was a practicing scientist, a logician, and a student of medieval philosophy and the history of science
Iii. A Philosopher's Perspective
Herbert Marcuse: An Immanent Critique
Praxis and Action: Contemporary Philosophies of Human Activity
"The ancient and modern question of what is the nature of man and his activity and what ought to be the directions pursued in this activity is once again being reaffirmed as a primary issue for reflective men."—from Praxis and Action
Reply to Gouldner
Critique of Gouldner's, The Coming Crisis of Western Sociology
Praxis and Action
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Praxis and Action. By Richard J. Bernstein. ( Pennsylvania Press, 1971. London: Duckworth. 1972. Pp. xv + 344. Price £3.95) M. J. Scott-Taggart M. J. Scott-Taggart Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 23, Issue 92, July 1973, Pages 277–279, https://doi.org/10.2307/2218015 Published: 01 July 1973
Restructuring of Social and Political Theory
The restructuring of social and political theory
Towards a Transformation of Philosophy
From the Center of the Earth
Beyond Objectivism and Relativism: Science, Hermeneutics, and Praxis
Drawing freely and expertly from Continental and analytic traditions, Richard Bernstein examines a number of debates and controversies exemplified in the works of Gadamer, Habermas, Rorty, and Arendt. He argues that a "new conversation" is emerging about human rationality—a new understanding that emphasizes its practical character and has important ramifications both for thought and action.
Habermas and Modernity
All of these essays focus on the concept of modernity in the philosophical work of Jurgen - an ambitious and carefully argued intellectual project that invites, indeed demands, rigorous scrutiny. Following an introductory overview of Habermas's work by Richard Bernstein, Albrecht Wellmer's essay places the philosopher within the tradition of Hegel, Marx, Weber, and Critical Theory. Martin Jay discusses Habermas's views on art and aesthetics, and …
Philosophical Profiles: Essays in a Pragmatic Mode
Philosophical Profiles brings together ten important essays by Richard Berstein. Each focuses on the work of a thinker or group of thinkers at the center of contemporary developments in philosophy, including Hannah Arendt, John Dewey, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Jurgen Habermas, G.W.F. Hegel, Alasdair MacIntyre, Herbert Marcuse, and Richard Rorty
Rethinking the Social and the Political
La reestructuración de la teoría social y política
The Varieties of Pluralism
I argue that Dewey and the pragmatic thinkers were really ahead of their times. Dewey is relevant today in helping us to gain some perspective on our extremely confused and chaotic cultural condition. Furthermore, the dialectic of contemporary philosophy keeps leading us back to the point of departure for the pragmatic thinkers. This is especially evident in the revival of the centrality of the concept of a democratic community. I also seek to cl…
I. One Step Forward, Two Steps Backward: Richard Rorty on Liberal Democracy and Philosophy
Habermas and Modernity
Philosophical Profiles
Agnes Heller: Philosophy, Rational Utopia, and Praxis
II. Fred Dallmayr's Critique of Habermas
FRED DALLMAYR IS A POLITICAL THEORIST with a remarkable ability to engage in critical dialogue with a range of thinkers spanning what are all too frequently taken to be incompatible and even incommensurable traditions. There is scarcely a major thinker of the twentieth century that he has not encountered-always probing and interrogating them with sensitivity and judiciousness, seeking to bring forth new insights that pertain to politics. He is a …
Social theory as critique
Structuration theory is intrinsically incomplete if not linked to a conception of social science as critical theory.The Constitution of Society, p. 287
Social Theory of Modern Societies: Anthony Giddens and his Critics
This book offers a comprehensive appraisal of the work of Anthony Giddens, who is known worldwide as one of the leading figures in social theory and the social sciences. During the last decade Giddens has published a series of substantial volumes which have defined a distinctive and original theoretical approach. The twin focal points of his approach are the 'theory of structuration' and the analysis of 'modernity'. Giddens's writings on these an…
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