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The introduction by Merold Westphal sets the scene: Two books, two visions of philosophy, two friends and sometimes colleagues.... Modernity and Its Discontents is a debate between Caputo and Marsh in which each upheld their opposing philosphical positions by critical modernism and post-modernism. The book opens with a critique of each debater of the others previous work. With its passionate point-counterpoint form, the book recalls the philosphical dialogues of classical times, but the writing style remains lucid and uncluttered. Taking the failure of Englightenment ideals as their common ground, the debaters challenge each others ideas on the nature of post-foundationalist critique. At the core of the argument lies the timely question of the role that each person can play in creating a truly humane society.
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edited by James L. Marsh, John D. Caputo, and Merold Westphal
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS New York 1992
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Copyright 1992 by Fordham University All rights reserved LC 91-46765 ISBN 0-8232-1344-7 (cloth) 0-8232-1345-5 (paper)
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Modernity and its discontents / edited by James L. Marsh, John D. Caputo, and Merold Westphal. p. cm. Based on a symposium at Fordham University in March, 1989. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-8232-1344-7: $32.50. ISBN 0-8232-1345-5 (pbk).: $19.95 1. PostmodernismCongresses. 2. Philosophy, ModernCongresses. I. Marsh, James L. II. Caputo, John D. III. Westphal, Merold. B831.2.M63 1992 190'.9'04dc2091-46765 CIP
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Contents
Abbreviations
vii
Preface
Merold Westphal
ix
Postmodernism/Critical Modernism
Caputo reads Marsh: In Defense of Ambiguity
1
Marsh reads Caputo: In Defense of Modernist Rationality
11
Uncapitalizing on Radical Hermeneutics
Mark Yount
23
On Being Inside/Outside Truth
John D. Caputo
45
Understanding and Difference: Reflections on Dialectical Phenomenology
Martin J. De Nys
65
Ambiguity, Language, and Communicative Praxis: A Critical Modernist Articulation
James L. Marsh
87
Open Forum
111
A Philosophical Dialogue: James L. Marsh, John D. Caputo, and Merold Westphal
119
The Cheating of Cratylus (Genitivus Subjectivus)
Merold Westphal
163
A Final Word (Eight Famous Ones)
John D. Caputo
183
The Gentle and Rigorous Cogency of Communicative Rationality
James L. Marsh
197
Index
217
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Abbreviations
PCM
James L. Marsh, Post-Cartesian Meditations: An Essay in Dialectical Phenomenology (New York: Fordham University Press, 1988).
RH
John D. Caputo, Radical Hermeneutics: Repetition, De-construction and the Hermeneutic Project (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1987).
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Preface
Merold Westphal
Two books, two visions of philosophy, two friends and sometime colleagues. Do we not have the makings of an exciting philosophical dialogue? Not quite. The crucial ingredient, as the Socrates of the Gorgias reminds us, is the willingness to enter into conversation, to abjure the making of speeches and to engage in open and honest question and answer without precondition. In this volume two contemporary philosophical postures, which, for the sake of convenience, can be labeled critical modernism and postmodernism, have been incarnated in persons who embody that crucial willingness to converse. While neither can be accused of passing up all opportunities to score rhetorical points, both have shown themselves passionately unwilling to reduce dialogue to playing games or to allow jargon to compromise the search for understanding.
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