{"product_id":"critical-encounters","title":"Critical Encounters","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCritical Encounters\u003c\/em\u003e, a study of contemporary philosophy and political and social theory, inserts itself into ongoing conversations at the junctures of philosophy and political thought, and modernity and post-modernism. Through dialogue and critique Fred R. Dallmayr seeks to find a viable path for political theory in the midst of contemporary discussions in philosophy and the social sciences, discussions influenced or overshadowed by twentieth-century phenomenology, hermeneutics, critical theory, structuralism, pragmatism, and deconstruction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDallmayr's perspective is delivered not as direct exposition, but through a series of critical encounters with some of the leading spokesmen of contemporary thought. His path points in the direction of a political theory construed as \"practical ontology\" or a pragmatism with ontological overtones. Dallmayr presupposes that such a renewed ontology can be articulated as only a strand in a larger conversational fabric. Against this weave he profiles his critical responses and engaging dialogues.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAmong the voices to which Dallmayr responds are: Apel's linguistic foundationalism; Habermas's bifurcation of instrumental system and life-world; Ricoeur's phenomenological antinomies; Gadamer's lingering hermeneutical idealism; Derrida's preference for nihilation of being; Bernstein's Deweyan pragmatism; and Macintyre's pragmatic traditionalism. Among contemporary social and political theorists attention is given to Giddens, Luhmann, and Theunissen.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"Fred Dallmayr","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43576131584182,"sku":"9780268007744","price":23.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0251\/4980\/0541\/files\/9780268007744_a2328283-3026-49e8-8a7b-d03774ad1978.jpg?v=1726831755","url":"https:\/\/combined-academic.myshopify.com\/products\/critical-encounters","provider":"Combined Academic Publishers - Mare Nostrum Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}