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Epistemological Ambivalence:

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Epistemological Ambivalence:

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Richard Rorty on Religion and Public Discourse

Terrence Reynolds

Leiden

Brill

The late Richard Rorty famously argued that faith-based positions grounded in comprehensive worldviews or unassailable texts served as 'conversation-stoppers' and should be excluded from the public sphere. This article argues that Rorty's position flies in the face of his own postmodern epistemology as well as his insistence on the humility and virtues that should attend the collective pursuit of the social good. It suggests that there are two Rortys at work and that his epistemological ambivalence undermines the force of his argument. The late Richard Rorty famously argued that faith-based positions grounded in comprehensive worldviews or unassailable texts served as 'conversation-stoppers' and should be excluded from the public sphere. This article argues that Rorty's position flies in the face of his own postmodern epistemology as well as his insistence on the humility and virtues that should attend the collective pursuit of the social good. It suggests that there are two Rortys at work and that his epistemological ambivalence undermines the force of his argument.

2017

88-109

International Journal of Public Theology

11/1

1569-7320

Deweyian progressivism

epistemology

General

Jewish Studies

Philosophy, Theology & Science

postmodernism

Practical Theology

public square

Religion & Society

Religious Studies

Social Sciences

Sociology of Religion

Theology and World Christianity

Wittgenstein

Terrence Reynolds

10.1163/15697320-12341473

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