The Rorty reader
by Bernstein, Richard J. Voparil, Christopher J.
"The Rorty Reader represents the first comprehensive collection of the writings of Richard Rorty, one of the twentieth century's most influential thinkers, best known for the controversial Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature (1979). Gathering together key essays from over four decades of writings, the volume offers an in-depth introduction to the philosopher's life and prolific body of work. Topics addressed include the continuities and transformations that span Rorty's early training in the hi…
Read More ↓Title Statements
- Full title :The Rorty reader / edited by Christopher J. Voparil and Richard J. Bernstein.
Summary
"The Rorty Reader represents the first comprehensive collection of the writings of Richard Rorty, one of the twentieth century's most influential thinkers, best known for the controversial Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature (1979). Gathering together key essays from over four decades of writings, the volume offers an in-depth introduction to the philosopher's life and prolific body of work. Topics addressed include the continuities and transformations that span Rorty's early training in the history of philosophy, his engagement with the analytic tradition, and the 1979 publication that brought him international renown. Particular attention is devoted to his later political writings, including his turn to literature as the vehicle of moral reflection most suitable to democratic life, and his embrace of philosophy as cultural politics.
With selections from The Linguistic Turn (1967), Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature (1979), Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity (1989), Achieving Our Country (1998), and his four volumes of philosophical papers, including Philosophy as Cultural Politics (2007), as well as in-depth interviews and revealing autobiographical pieces, The Rorty Reader offers a compelling and representative view of Rorty's relationship with American pragmatism and the overall intellectual trajectory of his philosophical and political thought."--Pub. desc.
Edition Statements
- Publication Date:2010.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Wiley-Blackwell
- Place of Publication:Malden, Mass
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2010.
The Physical Object
- Description:xvii, 548 pages ; : 26 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781405198318, 1405198311, 9781405198325, 140519832X
- oclc:ocn473125988
- LC Classification:B945.R524
- Dewey Decimal:191
Table of Contents
Toward philosophy without mirrors -- Introduction: Metaphilosophical difficulties of lingustic philosophy -- Dewey's metaphysics -- Philosophy and the mirror of nature -- Pragmatism, relativism, and irrationalism -- Nineteenth-century idealism and twentieth-century textualism -- Conversations with analytic philosophy -- From logic to language to play -- Pragmatism, Davidson, and truth -- Twenty-five years after -- Putnam and the relativist menace -- Analytic and conversational philosophy -- From anti-representationalism -- To political liberalism -- Philosophy as science, as metaphor, and as politics -- Solidarity or objectivity -- The priority of democracy to philosophy -- Freud and moral reflection -- Private irony and liberal hope -- Pragmatism, literature, and democracy -- The humanistic intellectual eleven theses -- Philosophers, novelists, and intercultural comparisons: Heidegger, Kundera, and Dickens -- De man and the American cultural left -- Feminism and pragmatism -- Human rights, rationality, and sentimentality -- Looking backwards from the year 2096 -- American national pride Whitman and Dewey -- Redemption from egotism -- Philosophy as cultural politics -- Truth witho…
Read More ↓Subjects
Writers
More from this Series
No reviews yet. Be the first to rate this work.
Rate & Review