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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 February 2022
With his usual deftness and sensitivity to the spirit of our times, Richard Bernstein has brought us to the center of current philosophical debates concerning modernity and postmodernity. He has sought to identify the common ground shared by three of the principals in these debates, in contradistinction to the usual stress placed on the differences separating them. He finds this common ground in the vision of a “non-foundational” or “anti-foundational pragmatic humanism” which is said to inspire all three, and next to which the usually perceived differences — which he does not’ deny — fade to differences of emphasis.
One job of a commentator is to set a discussion in motion, and the easiest way to do that here is obviously to recall the familiar differences, to argue that they are basic, and to suggest that next to them the alleged common ground shades to philosophical insignificance.