The Rorty reader / edited by Christopher J. Voparil and Richard J. Bernstein.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Voparil, Christopher J., 1969-

Bernstein, Richard J.

Series:

Blackwell readers

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rorty, Richard.

Physical Description:

xvi, 548 pages ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

Chichester, West Sussex ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.

Contents:

Toward philosophy without mirrors

Introduction to The linguistic turn

Dewey's metaphysics

Philosophy and the mirror of nature : introduction and chapter VIII

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

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 : James and Proust as spiritual exercises

Philosophy as cultural politics

Truth without correspondence to reality

Ethics without principles

Justice as a larger loyalty

Pragmatism as romantic polytheism

Religion in the public square : a reconsideration

Is "cultural recognition" a useful concept for leftist politics?

Philosophy as a transitional genre

Autobiographical

From philosophy to post-philosophy : an interview with Richard Rorty

Trotsky and the wild orchids

Biography and philosophy

The fire of life.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781405198318

1405198311

9781405198325

140519832X

OCLC:

473125988

Publisher Number:

99939847617