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DREAMS OF UTOPIA: ON THE ABSENCE OF PLACE

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 2020

Julian Baggini
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Abstract

Any philosophy which aspires to universality is caught in a perennial tension: the attempt to transcend the particularities of the individual thinker and her time and place can only be made by specific individuals in specific times and places. Anglophone philosophy deals with this tension by ignoring it.

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Research Article
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Think , Volume 19 , Issue 55 , Summer 2020 , pp. 23 - 32
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 2020

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Notes

1 I hope readers will excuse another absence: of the usual apparatus of detailed footnotes and references. Since this article takes a broad view of the whole nature of Anglophone Western philosophy, it is by necessity impressionistic and specific references can provide no more than examples.

2 Rorty, Richard, Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1979)Google Scholar.

3 Nagel, Thomas, The View from Nowhere (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986)Google Scholar.

4 Berlin, Isaiah, ‘Two Concepts of Liberty’, in Four Essays on Liberty (Oxford: Oxford University, 1969), 118–72Google Scholar.

5 Sen, Amartya, The Idea of Justice (London: Allen Lane, 2009)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.