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This title in other formats:Manifesto of a Passionate Moderate: Unfashionable Essaysby Susan Haack
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:Forthright and wryly humorous, philosopher Susan Haack deploys her penetrating analytic skills on some of the most highly charged cultural and social debates of recent years. Relativism, multiculturalism, feminism, affirmative action, pragmatisms old and new, science, literature, the future of the academy and of philosophy itselfall come under her keen scrutiny in Manifesto of a Passionate Moderate. "The virtue of Haack's book, and I mean virtue in the ethical sense, is that it embodies the attitude that it exalts. . . Haack's voice is urbane, sensible, passionatethe voice of philosophy that matters. How good to hear it again."Jonathan Rauch, Reason "A tough mind, confident of its power, making an art of logic . . . a cool mastery."Paul R. Gross, Wilson Quarterly "Few people are better able to defend the notion of truth, and in strong, clear prose, than Susan Haack . . . a philosopher of great distinction."Hugh Lloyd-Jones, National Review "If you relish acute observation and straight talk, this is a book to read."Key Reporter (Phi Beta Kappa) "Everywhere in this book there is the refreshing breeze of common sense, patiently but inexorably blowing."Roger Kimball, Times Literary Supplement "A refreshing alternative to the extremism that characterizes so much rhetoric today."Kirkus Reviews Book News Annotation:Many of them revised and expanded from original presentations and
publications, 11 essays reveal Haack's (philosophy and Law, U. of
Miami) thoughts on a number of current debates. Among them are
relativism, multiculturalism, feminism, affirmative action,
pragmatism, and the future of the academy and of philosophy. She asks
whether there is truth, whether honest inquiry is possible or
desirable, whether knowledge differs from propaganda, and other
questions.
Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) Synopsis:PrefaceIntroduction 1: Confessions of an Old-Fashioned Prig 2: "We Pragmatists ...": Peirce and Rorty in Conversation 3: As for that phrase "studying in a literary spirit" ... 4: "Dry Truth and Real Knowledge": Epistemologies of Metaphor and Metaphors of Epistemology 5: Puzzling Out Science 6: Science as Social? - Yes and No 7: Knowledge and Propaganda: Reflections of an Old Feminist 8: Multiculturalism and Objectivity 9: Reflections on Relativism: From Momentous Tautology to Seductive Contradiction 10: The best man for the job may be a woman ... and other alien thoughts on affirmative action in the academy 11: Preposterism and Its Consequences Acknowledgments Index What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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