The New Constellation

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In this major new work, Bernstein explores the ethical andpolitical dimensions of the modernity/post-modernity debate. Bernstein argues that modernity / post-modernity should beunderstood as a kind of mood - one which is amorphous, shifting andprotean but which exerts a powerful influence on our currentthinking. Focusing on thinkers such as Heidegger, Derrida,Foucault, Habermas and Rorty, Bernstein probes the strengths andweaknesses of their work, and shows how they have contributed tothe formation of a new mood, a new and distinctive constellation ofideas. This new constellation has put ethical and political issues backon the philosophical agenda, forcing us to confront anew, theSocratic question 'How should I live?'

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Richard J. Bernstein

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'This is the best book yet written on the tension between leftistpolitical initiatives ... and post-modernist philosophical thought.Bernstein's discussions of Foucault, Derrida and Heidegger aremodels of careful commentary and fair-minded criticism.' RichardRorty, University of Virginia 'Bernstein's book is an important contribution to perhaps theonly aspect of the fashionable post-modernity debate which is stillcomparatively underexposed, the political.' PoliticalStudies
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