Philosophy, Social Hope and Democratic Criticism
Critical Theory for a Global Age
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12643128 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Shane O' Neill (Queen's University Belfast, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 60-76 |
| Publication date | 2008-04-09 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Critical Horizons (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1440-9917 • E-ISSN: 1568-5160 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1558/crit.v9i1.60 |
| OpenAlex | W2046702972 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 10 |
The attempt to connect philosophy and social hope has been one of the key distinguishing features of critical theory as a tradition of enquiry. This connection has been questioned forcefully from the perspective of a post-philosophical pragmatism, as articulated by Rorty. In this article I consider two strategies that have been adopted by critical theorists in seeking to reject Rorty's suggestion that we should abandon the attempt to ground social hope in philosophical reason. We consider argumentative strategies of the philosophical anthropologist and of the rational proceduralist. Once the exchanges between Rorty and these two strands of critical theory have been reconstructed and assessed, an alternative perspective emerges. It is argued that philosophical reasoning best helps to sustain social hope in a rapidly changing world when we consider it in terms of the practice of democratic criticism
Argumentative · Critical theory · Criticism · Democracy · Epistemology · Perspective (graphical · Philosophical theory · Political science · Politics · Pragmatism · Sociology · Critical and Liberation Pedagogy · Education and Critical Thinking Development · Law · Philosophy · Pragmatism in Philosophy and Education
| Citations per year | 0.06 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2010 - 2010 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |