The idea of emancipation from a cosmopolitan point of view

Continental Philosophy Review

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 395-416

  Papastephanou, Marianna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

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EID: 52849108221     PISSN: 13872842     EISSN: 15731103     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1026423403535     Document Type: Article

References (50)

1. Richard Rorty, "Introduction," Consequences of Pragmatism (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1982), p. xxxix (first emphasis added).
2. Consequences of Pragmatism, p. xxxvii.
3. Rorty, 'Texts and Lumps," Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991), p. 88.
4. Rorty, "Cosmopolitanism without Emancipation: A Response to Lyotard." In Scott Lash and Jonathan Friedman, eds., Modernity and Identity (Oxford: Blackwell, 1992).
5. Rorty, "The Contingency of a Liberal Community," Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989), p. 48.
6. Rorty, "Cosmopolitanism without Emancipation," p. 62.
7. Júrgen Habermas, Knowledge and Human Interests, trans. Jeremy J. Shapiro (Boston: Beacon Press, 1971), p. 288.
8. See Rorty, Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1979), p. 259.
9. On Rorty's use of this metaphor see Consequences of Pragmatism, p. xxxviii.
10. Both quotations in Sean Sayers, Marxism and Human Nature (London: Routledge, 1998), p. 14. As concerns the problems and weaknesses of utilitarian accounts of happiness and human nature, see especially chapter 2 in the same book.
11. Marxism and Human Nature, especially p. 18. See also the book's introduction.
12. "Cosmopolitanism without Emancipation," p. 62.
13. I do not argue that the psychological theories which have been employed by Habermas or could be compatible with his work are without problems. Concerning their problems, see Piet Strydom, "The Ontogenetic Fallacy: The Immanent Critique of Habermas's Developmental Logical Theory of Evolution," Theory, Culture, and Society 9 (1992): 65-93. What I claim is that the essentialism of a Cartesian conception of the self and the positivist and behaviourist reaction to essentialism is not our only choice.
14. For criticisms of Rorty's epistemological behaviourism, see Thomas McCarthy, "Philosophy and Social Practice: Avoiding the Ethnocentric Predicament." In Axel Honneth et al., eds., Philosophical Interventions in the Unfinished Project of Enlightenment (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1992).
15. For further information on the distinctions between inventing and revealing subjectivity and between self-certainty and self-acquaintance, see Dieter Henrich, "The Origins of the Theory of the Subject," Philosophical Interventions, and Peter Dews, The Limits of Disenchantment_(London and New York: Verso, 1995).
16. Knowledge and Human Interests, p. 288.
17. "Cosmopolitanism without Emancipation" p. 61.
18. "Remarks on Deconstruction and Pragmatism." In Chantal Mouffe, ed., Deconstruction and Pragmatism (London: Routledge, 1996), p. 15. By this I do not mean to reduce the issue to theological polemics and I by no means allude to a rehabilitation of teleology or eschatology of any sort. I am only arguing that Rorty should have had a more enriched and conceptually differentiated account of human beings without being unfaithful to his antifoundationalism.
19. See John Dewey, Political Writings, eds. D. Morris and I. Shapiro (Indianapolis, IN: Hackett, 1993).
20. See, e.g., Jean-François Lyotard, The Differend: Phrases in Dispute, Irans. Georges Van Den Abbeele (Minneapolis: Minnesota University Press, 1988).
21. "Cosmopolitanism without Emancipation," p. 62.
22. "The Contingency of a Liberal Community," p. 48.
23. Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature, p. 317.
24. "Cosmopolitanism without Emancipation," pp. 62-63.
25. "Cosmopolitanism without Emancipation," p. 65.
26. See Habermas, On the Logic of the Social Sciences (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1990), p. 148.
27. On the Logic of the Social Sciences, p. 149 (emphasis added).
28. Rorty, "Cosmopolitanism without Emancipation," p. 64.
29. Rorty, Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature, p. 174.
30. Rorty, "Cosmopolitanism without Emancipation," p. 63.
31. 1. Rorty, Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature, p. 319.
32. Rorty, "Cosmopolitanism without Emancipation," p. 67.
33. On criticisms of Habermas for not being able to maintain the distinction strategic vs. communicative consistently see Erling Skjei, "A Comment on Performative, Subject, and Proposition in Habermas's Theory of Communication," Inquiry 28 (1985): 87-104. For this information - as well as other constructive comments on my arguments - I am indebted to CPR's reviewers of my article.
34. For this example as well as further discussion of conviction and persuasion, see Habermas, Moral Consciousness and Communicative Action (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1992), p. 90.
35. "Deconstruction, Pragmatism, Hegermony," in Deconstruction and Pragmatism, pp. 60-61.
36. "Method, Social Science, and Social Hope" in Consequences of Pragmatism, p. 208.
37. Quoted by Richard J. Bernstein, Philosophical Profiles (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1986), p. 85. Bernstein emphasizes the ironic element in statements like this and explains them as strategies Rorty employs for rhetorical shock value, but I think that positivism is very much there in many of Rorty's theses.
38. "Pragmatism, Relativism, Irrationalism," in Consequences of Pragmatism, p. 164.
39. See Theory and Practice. Irans. John Viertel (Boston: Beacon Press, 1973).
40. Rorty, in Deconstruction and Pragmatism, pp. 45-46.
41. Habermas, "A Reply." In Axel Honneth and Hans Jonas, eds., Communicative Action (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1991), p. 228.
42. Deconstruction and Pragmatism, p. 64.
43. On the normative presuppositions of argumentation and their non-circumventible char-acter, see Karl-Otto Apel, From a Transcendental-Semiotic Point of View, ed. Marianna Papastephanou, (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1998).
44. Apel, From A Transcendental-Semiotic Point of View, p. 82.
45. For a discussion of fallibilism as understood by the Frankfurt School thinkers and their debate about the plausibility of fallibilism being subjected to a fallibilistic test, see Marianna Papastephanou, "Communicative Action and Philosophical Foundations," Philosophy and Social Criticism 23/4 (1997): 49-50.
46. See Habermas, Justification and Application, Irans. Ciaran P. Cronin (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1993).
47. Habermas, "A Reply," p. 231.
48. "A Reply," p. 232.
49. Deconstruction and Pragmatism, p. 67.
50. In Drucilla Cornell, ed., Deconstruction and the Possibility of Justice (London: Routledge, 1992), p. 28.