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The Cambridge companion to Rorty / edited by David Rondel, University of Nevada, Reno.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Cambridge companions to philosophy.
- Cambridge companions to philosophy
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rorty, Richard.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 349 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2021.
- Summary:
- This Companion provides a systematic introductory overview of Richard Rorty's philosophy. With chapters from an interdisciplinary group of leading scholars, the volume addresses virtually every aspect of Rorty's thought, from his philosophical views on truth and representation and his youthful obsession with wild orchids to his ruminations on the contemporary American Left and his prescient warning about the election of Donald Trump. Other topics covered include his various assessments of classical American pragmatism, feminism, liberalism, religion, literature, and philosophy itself. Sympathetic in some cases, in others sharply critical, the essays will provide readers with a deep and illuminating portrait of Rorty's exciting brand of neopragmatism.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half-title
- Series information
- Title page
- Copyright information
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- List of Abbreviations of Works by Rorty
- Introduction: The Unity of Richard Rorty's Philosophy
- Darwinism, Anti-Authoritarianism, and Pragmatism
- Antirepresentationalism, Truth, and Metaphilosophy
- Between Irony and Liberalism
- Redescription and Cultural Politics
- Notes
- 1 Rorty's Metaphilosophy: A Pluralistic Corridor
- ''Unabashedly Metaphilosophical''
- Understanding Rorty's Metaphilosophical Pluralism
- Sources of Rorty's Metaphilosophical Pluralism
- Consequences of Rorty's Metaphilosophical Pluralism
- 2 After Metaphysics: Eliminativism and the Protreptic Dilemma
- Naming, of Necessity
- The Metaphilosophical Significance of Eliminativism
- Splitting the Déférance
- 3 Rorty and Classical Pragmatism
- Rorty's Early Encounter with Classical Pragmatism
- Rorty and Peirce
- Rorty and Dewey
- Rorty and James
- 4 A Pragmatism More Ironic Than Pragmatic
- Nominalism
- Nominalism in Sellars and Davidson
- Rorty's Version
- Against Empiricism
- The Higher Nominalism
- Why Not Nominalism?
- 5 Rorty and Semantic Minimalism
- Two Teams
- Misunderstanding Dewey?
- 6 Returning to the Particular: Morality and the Self after Rorty
- Morality and the Epistemological Enterprise
- An Independent Conception
- Morality and the Self without Pessimism
- 7 Rorty's Political Philosophy
- Postmodernist Bourgeois Liberalism
- The Ideally Liberal Society
- From Self-Creation to Prophecy
- Achieving Freedom and Equality
- 8 Tinkering with Truth, Tinkering with Difference: Rorty and (Liberal) Feminism
- Introduction: Rorty's Liberal ''We''
- Tinkering with Rationality and Truth: Redescription in a Prophetic Key.
- Tinkering with Identity and Difference: The Politics of Identity as Philosophical Program and as Political Project
- Conclusion: Feminist Redescription as Feminist Tinkering
- 9 Rorty's Insouciant Social Thought
- 10 Rorty and National Pride
- The Problem of the Cultural Left
- Historical Ignorance
- Troubled Legacies
- 11 Rorty on Religion
- Reason and Religion
- Religion as a Conversation Stopper
- Cultural Politics and Anticlericalism
- A Religion of Democratic Hope
- 12 Rorty: Reading Continental Philosophy
- Heidegger
- Derrida
- Foucault
- Conclusion
- 13 Rorty's Literary Culture: Reading, Redemption, and The Heart's Invisible Furies
- Introduction
- Imagination, Solidarity, and the Moral Life
- Searching for Self in John Boyne's The Heart's Invisible Furies
- 14 Wild Orchids
- Experience and Nature
- Anti-Authoritarianism
- Natural Piety
- In Search of Lost Time
- Bibliography
- I Primary Literature
- Books
- Other Writings
- II Secondary Literature
- III Suggested Further Reading
- Index.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 27 Apr 2021).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781108754767
- 1108754767
- 9781108755634
- 1108755631
- 9781108678261
- 1108678262
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