Rorty, Liberal Democracy, and Religious Certainty

• Main Author: Gascoigne, Neil (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Epistemology.; Political philosophy.; Religion-Philosophy.; Political Philosophy.; Philosophy of Religion.

This book asks whether there any limits to the sorts of religious considerations that can be raised in public debates, and if there are, by whom they are to be identified. Its starting point is the work of Richard Rorty, whose pragmatic pluralism leads him to argue for a politically motivated anticl...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1: Pragmatist Fideism as Cultural Poltiics
• Chapter 2: Rorty, Religion and the Public Square
• Chapter 3: Presumptions of Innocence
• Chapter 4: Living Certainties
• Chapter 5: Pragmatist Fideism and Epistemological Peace.