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Richard Rorty (Stanford University, California)
This volume presents a selection of philosophical papers which Richard Rorty has written over the past decade. Topics discussed include the changing role of philosophy in Western culture over the…
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In this volume Rorty offers a Deweyan account of objectivity as intersubjectivity, one that drops claims about universal validity and instead focuses on utility for the purposes of a community.
A collection of Rorty’s essays complementing two previously published volumes.
Richard Rorty - His Philosophy Under Discussion
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Tobias Timm
This book addresses the implications of Richard Rorty’s rejection of experience. The author argues that there are ways to recover a concept of experience that is consistent with Rorty’s preference…
David L. Hall
This book is a discussion of the nature and import of Richard Rorty’s philosophy, particularly as it relates to his reevaluation of American pragmatism. Rorty’s thinking is assessed within the…
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Rene Vincente Arcilla
This book examines Richard Rorty’s pragmatist philosophy for thinking about the aims and processes of liberal education, offering a radical re-interpretation of the philosopher’s arguments against metaphysics.
Chris Voparil (Graduate Faculty, Graduate Faculty, Union Institute and University)
Known as
Richard Rorty,Gianni Vattimo
Argues that the end of metaphysics paves the way for an anti-essentialist religion. This book explores the congruence between Christianity and hermeneutics in light of the dissolution of metaphysical truth…
In this volume, a host of distinguished scholars examine Richard Rorty’s influence on twentieth-century American pragmatism and its commitment to achieving social democracy.
Dr Aine Mahon (The New School for Social Research, USA)
At the time of his death in 2007, Richard Rorty was widely acclaimed as one of the world’s most influential contemporary thinkers. Stanley Cavell, who has been a leading intellectual…
Norman Geras
This study examines with the work of Richard Rorty - a proponent of human, radical liberalism - to explore the paradoxes of a philosophy which rejects any determinate view of…
Markar Melkonian
Much of what Richard Rorty has to say about the triumph of American liberalism is largely accepted and unquestioned by a variety of scholars. This title critically examines Rorty’s brand…
The first complete posthumous reflection on the work of Richard Rorty, one of the most important and influential American philosophers of recent times.
Ronald Alexander Kuipers
n a critical yet sympathetic examination of Richard Rorty’s philosophy, the author uses the biblical figure of ‘The Stranger’ to explore some ethical tensions in Rorty’s affirmation of a liberal…
U. Schulenberg
This interdisciplinary project is situated at the boundary between literary studies and philosophy. Its chief focus is on American Romanticism and it examines work by a number of prominent writers…
Richard Rorty
This volume collects a number of important and revealing interviews with Richard Rorty, spanning more than two decades of his public intellectual commentary, engagement, and criticism.
This book is a selection from papers presented at a conference sponsored by the Highlands Institute for American Religious Thought in Highlands, North Carolina, in June 1995. The central theme…
Edward J. Grippe
Presents a study of Richard Rorty’s New Pragmatism on its own terms, and a critical analysis of its implications for contemporary thought. This book concludes that Rorty’s pragmatism is self-defeating…
Eric M. Gander
A critique of Rorty’s own provocative political philosophy, as well as an in-depth look at both the issues concerning the relationship between the public and the private, and arguments on…
Cornelia Clauss
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2007 im Fachbereich Philosophie - Theoretische (Erkenntnis, Wissenschaft, Logik, Sprache), Note: 1,7, Universitat Leipzig, 25 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Frage danach, was Wahrheit…
This book demonstrates that Rorty offers a coherent ethical vision. Its chapters explore his emphasis on the importance of moral imagination, social relations, language, and literature as instrumental for ethical…
The Linguistic Turn provides a rich and representative introduction to the entire historical and doctrinal range of the linguistic philosophy movement. In two retrospective essays titled Ten Years After and…
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I dag opfatter mange mennesker sig som religiose, uden at de dermed nodvendigvis tilslutter sig den kristendom, der i Vesten igennem to artusinder har vAeret den dominerende religion. Bogen rejser…
Drawn from Richard Rorty’s acclaimed 2004 Page-Barbour lectures, Philosophy as Poetry distils many of the central ideas in his work. This book makes an ideal starting place for anyone looking…
Hans-Martin Schoenherr-Mann
Der folgende Text fuhrt in Richard Rortys politikphilosophisches Hauptwerk Kontingenz, Ironie und Solidaritat aus dem Jahr 1989 ein und kommentiert es Kapitel fur Kapitel. Dabei geht es sowohl um die…
Krzysztof Piotr Skowronski
Values, Valuations, and Axiological Norms in Richard Rorty’s Neopragmatism sympathetically discusses Richard Rorty’s neopragmatist philosophy. This book brings together a range of interpretations and possibilities on a variety of humanistic…
Richard Rorty (Professor of Comparative Literature),Pascal Engel
American pragmatist Rorty and the French analytic philosopher Engel present their radically different perspectives on truth and its correspondence to reality. What’s the Use of Truth? is a rare opportunity…
Fabian Saner
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2007 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Sonstiges, Universitat Bern, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Auf der Basis der im Seminar Wissenschaftstheoretische Grundlagen der Literaturwissenschaft im Sommersemester 2007 behandelten Debatten-Beitrage…
Richard Rorty,Pascal Engel
What is truth? What value should we see in or attribute to it? The war over the meaning and utility of truth is at the center of contemporary philosophical debate…
This volume makes accessible for the first time philosophical papers Richard Rorty wrote during the first decade of his career, and complements four previous volumes of his papers published by…
Includes the previously unpublished essay The philosopher as expert.
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Fabian Beer
Obwohl die Kritik am reprasentationalistischen Bild vom Spiegel der Natur, sowie der darauf aufbauenden Disziplin der Erkenntnistheorie, ein wohlbekannter Topoi des 20.
Wilfrid Sellars,Richard Rorty
First published in essay form in 1956, this book presents Sellars’ entire philosophical system and his attack on the Myth of the Given, which raised doubts about the very idea…
On Philosophy and Philosophers is a volume of unpublished papers by Richard Rorty, a central figure in late-twentieth-century philosophy and a primary force behind the resurgence of American pragmatism. These…
The sixteen essays in this volume confront the current debate about the relationship between philosophy and its history and asks what purpose the history of philosophy should serve.
A collection of the work of Richard Rorty (1931-2007). It offers a comprehensive introduction to Richard Rorty’s life and body of work. It brings key essays published across many volumes…
