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Achieving Our Country: Leftist Thought in Twentieth-Century America by Richard Rorty
Category: Politics | Series: The William E. Massey Sr. Lectures in the History of American Civilization
The author argues that the Left wing in America sees the sins of America's past poisoning hope for the future, and challenges the "lost" generation of the Left to understand the role it might play in the tradition of democratic intellectual labour that started with writers like Walt Whitman and John Dew ...Show more
CONTINGENCY IRONY AND SOLIDARITY by RORTY RICHARD
Category: Fiction
In this book, major American philosopher Richard Rorty argues that thinkers such as Nietzsche, Freud, and Wittgenstein have enabled societies to see themselves as historical contingencies, rather than as expressions of underlying, ahistorical human nature, or as realizations of suprahistorical goals. T ...Show more
On Philosophy and Philosophers - Unpublished Papers, 1960-2000 by Richard Rorty; Christopher Voparil (Editor); Wojciech Małecki (Editor)
Category: Philosophy and Religion
On Philosophy and Philosophers is a volume of unpublished philosophical papers by Richard Rorty, a central figure in late-twentieth-century intellectual debates and a primary force behind the resurgence of American pragmatism. The first collection of new work to appear since his death in 2007, these pre ...Show more
PHILOSOPHY & THE MIRROR OF NATURE by RORTY RICHARD
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Princeton Classics Ser.
When it first appeared in 1979, Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature hit the philosophical world like a bombshell. In it, Richard Rorty argued that, beginning in the seventeenth century, philosophers developed an unhealthy obsession with the notion of representation: comparing the mind to a mirror that r ...Show more
Pragmatism As Anti-Authoritarianism by Richard Rorty; Eduardo Mendieta (Editor); Robert B. Brandom (Foreword by)
Category: Philosophy and Religion
The last book by the eminent American philosopher and public intellectual Richard Rorty, providing the definitive statement of his mature philosophical and political views.Richard Rorty's Pragmatism as Anti-Authoritarianism is a last statement by one of America's foremost philosophers. Here Rorty offers ...Show more
What Can We Hope For?: Essays on Politics by Richard Rorty
Category: Art of the Essay
Prescient essays about the state of our politics from the philosopher who predicted that a populist demagogue would become president of the United States Richard Rorty, one of the most influential intellectuals of recent decades, is perhaps best known today as the philosopher who, almost two decades bef ...Show more
What Can We Hope For?: Essays on Politics by Richard Rorty
Category: Politics
Prescient essays about the state of our politics from the philosopher who predicted that a populist demagogue would become president of the United States Richard Rorty, one of the most influential intellectuals of recent decades, is perhaps best known today as the philosopher who, almost two decades bef ...Show more
What's the use of Truth? by Rorty, Richard, Engel, Pascal, McCuaig, William
Category: Philosophy
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