Pragmatism without Foundations 2nd ed

In this remarkable book, Joseph Margolis, one of America's leading and most celebrated philosophers, examines the relationship between two apparently contradictory philosophical tendencies - realism and relativism. In order to examine the relationship between the two, Margolis establishes a taxomony of different kinds of realism and different kinds of relativism. Drawing on both the analytic and Continental traditions, he examines (from a pragmatic point of view) the various relationships between these two tendencies in the light of two major developments in modern philosophy - the concern for praxis and the concern for historicity. Twenty years after it was first published to great acclaim, Margolis has updated Pragmatism Without Foundationsin the light of his most recent work and the development of pragmatism in the intellectual world. This second edition includes an updated preface and a brand new epilogue addressing these developments and their implications for his earlier work.

Preface to Second Edition	p. vii
Preface	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. xi
Prologue: A Sense of the Issue	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 1
The Defense and Application of Relativism	p. 7
The Nature and Strategies of Relativism	p. 9
Historicism and Universalism	p. 30
Objectivism and Relativism	p. 55
Rationality and Realism	p. 72
Realism and Relativism	p. 92
Foundations and the Recovery of Pragmatism	p. 117
The Legitimation of Realism	p. 119
Pragmatism without Foundations	p. 138
A Sense of Rapprochement between Analytic and Continental European Philosophy	p. 157
Cognitive Issues in the Realist-Idealist Dispute	p. 179
Skepticism, Foundationalism, and Pragmatism	p. 208
Scientific Realism as a Transcendental Issue	p. 235
Epilogue: Pragmatism's New Options; Classic Foundations and Contemporary Solutions	p. 261
Index	p. 277
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Pragmatism without Foundations 2nd ed Reconciling Realism and Relativism

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