Charles Taylor, Strong Hermeneutics and the Politics of Difference

Nick Smith ~ RP 068 (Autumn 1994) ~ Article

Charles Taylor, Strong Hermeneutics and the Politics of Difference Nick Smith In The Ethics of Authenticity, Charles Taylor sketches a defence of three highly ambitious claims. 1 The first and most general one is that ideals and the practices which are meant to conform to them are answerable to reason. An ideal is made answerable […]

Timely Meditations

Jonathan Rée ~ RP 055 (Summer 1990), pp. 31–39 ~ Article

Timely Meditations Jonathan Ree Review Essay on Richard Rorty, Contingency, Irony and Solidarity, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1989, 201pp. £25 hb, £7.95 pb, 0521353815 hb, o 521 36781 6 pb. It is now some years since Richard Rorty broke with American analytic philosophy, for reasons he spelt out in Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature […]

In search of community: Mouffe, Wittgenstein and Cavell

Alessandra Tanesini ~ RP 110 (Nov/Dec 2001) ~ Article

In search of community Mouffe, Wittgenstein and Cavell Alessandra tanesini Recent discussions of political community are, so I argue in this article, haunted by the spectre of scepticism about other minds. I do not intend to suggest that these discussions address directly the philosophical version of the sceptical problem. Rather, I believe they ﬁnd their […]