The Rorty reader /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Voparil, Christopher J., 1969-, Bernstein, Richard J.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chichester ; Malden, Mass. : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.
Series:Blackwell readers.
Subjects:
Table of 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.