Autonomy and Normativity: Investigations of Truth,Right
Autonomy and Normativity explores central topics in current philosophical debate, challenging the prevailing post-modern dogma that theory, practice and art are captive to contingent historical foundations by showing how foundational dilemmas are overcome once validity is recognized to reside in self- determination. \ Through constructive arguments covering the principal topics and controversies in epistemology, ethics, and aesthetics, Autonomy and Normativity demonstrates how truth, right...
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Autonomy and Normativity explores central topics in current philosophical debate, challenging the prevailing post-modern dogma that theory, practice and art are captive to contingent historical foundations by showing how foundational dilemmas are overcome once validity is recognized to reside in self- determination. Through constructive arguments covering the principal topics and controversies in epistemology, ethics, and aesthetics, Autonomy and Normativity demonstrates how truth, right and beauty can retain universal validity without succumbing to the mistaken Enlightenment strategy of seeking foundations for rational autonomy. Presenting a compact, yet comprehensive statement of a powerful and provocative alternative to the reigning orthodoxies of current philosophical debate, Richard Winfield employs Hegelian techniques and focus to object to opponents, and presents a radical and systematic critique of the work of mainstream thinkers including: Kant, Rawls, Husserl, Haberman and others. The ramifications for the legitimation of modernity are thoroughly explored, in conjunction with an analysis of the fate of theory, practice and art in the modern world. This book offers an invaluable resource for students on a variety of courses in both analytic and continental philosophical traditions, and related areas of law, social theory and aesthetics. A radical and systematic critique of some of the mainstream thinkers by means of a single unifying principle. This book will contribute very constructively to current philosophical debate. Wilfried Ver Eecke, Professor of Philosophy, Georgetown University, USA Winfield has a very clear position, namely that normativity must befoundation-free and so self-determining, and he explores the implications of this position with great energy and clarity. It is very helpful to have these essays collected together so coherently in this single volume which will appeal to students and scholars coming from a broadly Hegelian direction, as well as those working on political questions from the perspectives of Kant, Marx, Rawls or Habermas. Stephen Hougate, Professor of Philosophy, University of Warwick, UK Booknews Winfield (U. of Georgia) employs Hegelian techniques to present a systematic critique of the work of mainstream thinkers including Kant, Rawls, Husserl, and Habermas. Through arguments covering the principal topics and controversies in epistemology, ethics, and aesthetics, he demonstrates how truth, right, and beauty can retain universal validity without succumbing to the mistaken Enlightenment strategy of seeking foundations for rational autonomy. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
A Note on the TextIntroductionCh. 1Freedom from Foundations: The Normativity of Autonomy in Theory and Practice3Ch. 2Hegel's Remedy for the Impasse of Contemporary Philosophy20Ch. 3Philosophy without Foundations?35Ch. 4Concept, Individuality and Truth42Ch. 5Space, Time and Matter: Conceiving Nature without Foundations54Ch. 6Ethical Community without Communitarianism69Ch. 7The Immanent Critique of Natural Ethical Community81Ch. 8With What Must Ethics Begin? Reflections on Property and Contract87Ch. 9Unity in the Common Law?97Ch. 10Friendship, Family and Ethical Community109Ch. 11The Unfinished Revolution in Family Law127Ch. 12Should the Economy be Democratized?141Ch. 13Relativism and Democracy152Ch. 14Post-Colonialism and Right161Ch. 15The Individuality of Art and the Collapse of Metaphysical Aesthetics179Ch. 16Romanticism and Modernity195Ch. 17The Challenge of Architecture to Systematic Aesthetics211ConclusionCh. 18Modernity and the Recovery of Truth, Right and Beauty227Index245
\ BooknewsWinfield (U. of Georgia) employs Hegelian techniques to present a systematic critique of the work of mainstream thinkers including Kant, Rawls, Husserl, and Habermas. Through arguments covering the principal topics and controversies in epistemology, ethics, and aesthetics, he demonstrates how truth, right, and beauty can retain universal validity without succumbing to the mistaken Enlightenment strategy of seeking foundations for rational autonomy. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)\ \
