Philosophy as cultural politics / Richard Rorty.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rorty, Richard.

Series:

Rorty, Richard. Philosophical papers ; v. 4.

Philosophical papers ; v. 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy.

Culture.

Physical Description:

xii, 206 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Summary:

This volume presents a selection of the philosophical papers which Richard Rorty has written over the past decade, and complements three previous volumes of his papers: Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth, Essays on Heidegger and Others, and Truth and Progress. Topics discussed include the changing role of philosophy in Western culture over the course of recent centuries, the role of the imagination in intellectual and moral progress, the notion of "moral identity," the Wittgensteinian claim that the problems of philosophy are linguistic in nature, the irrelevance of cognitive science to philosophy, and the mistaken idea that philosophers should find the "place" of such things as consciousness and moral value in a world of physical particles. The papers form a rich and distinctive collection which will appeal to anyone with a serious interest in philosophy and its relation to culture.

Contents:

I Religion and Morality from a Pragmatist Point of View 1

1 Cultural politics and the question of the existence of God 3

2 Pragmatism as romantic polytheism 27

3 Justice as a larger loyalty 42

4 Honest mistakes 56

II Philosophy's Place in Culture 71

5 Grandeur, profundity, and finitude 73

6 Philosophy as a transitional genre 89

7 Pragmatism and romanticism 105

8 Analytic and conversational philosophy 120

III Current Issues within Analytic Philosophy 131

9 A pragmatist view of contemporary analytic philosophy 133

10 Naturalism and quietism 147

11 Wittgenstein and the linguistic turn 160

12 Holism and historicism 176

13 Kant vs. Dewey: the current situation of moral philosophy 183.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0521875447

9780521875448

0521698359

9780521698351

OCLC:

72148346

Publisher Number:

9780521875448

9780521698351