Abstract

We are witnessing the emergence of what can be called "post-epistemological philosophy," in which the concern with problems of knowledge passes over into a concern for social, political, and moral problems. Bernstein's Beyond Objectivism and Relativism is not only the latest representative of this point of view; it can also be regarded as the movement's first history and apologia. Indeed, the purpose of the book is simultaneously to provide an account of the intellectual genesis of post-epistemological philosophy and to give a philosophical justification of its central views.