The Cambridge Companion to Rorty

Forsideomslag
David Rondel
Cambridge University Press, 2021 - 384 sider
"Richard Rorty (1931-2007) was perhaps the unique philosopher of his generation. Admired in some intellectual circles, reviled in others, he was unique for the sheer breadth of his interests and expertise. In an era when philosophy was becoming increasingly hyper-specialized, Rorty seemed more to resemble the great polymaths of the early modern period, writing on a dazzling variety of topics -both the recondite topics of specialist philosophers and, more frequently as he grew older, public-facing contributions on politics, literature, and culture. He drew from an equally dazzlingly diverse group of thinkers, from Darwin and Dewey to Derrida and Davidson, from Freud, Nietzsche, and Heidegger, to Nabokov, Orwell, and Harold Bloom. It puts the point mildly to say that Rorty's litany of intellectual heroes was an eclectic and idiosyncratic one. Writing on figures within the so-called analytic and continental traditions with (or so it seemed) equal familiarity and facility, it is no embellishment to say that Richard Rorty had a range of interests simply not found among his philosophical contemporaries"--
 

Indhold

A Pluralistic Corridor
19
Eliminativism and the Protreptic
42
Rorty and Classical Pragmatism
67
A Pragmatism More Ironic Than Pragmatic
88
Rorty and Semantic Minimalism
110
Morality and the Self
129
Rortys Political Philosophy
155
Rorty and National Pride
222
Rorty on Religion
243
Reading Continental Philosophy
261
Reading Redemption
284
Wild Orchids
303
Bibliography
323
Index
345
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David Rondel is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Nevada. He is author of Pragmatist Egalitarianism (2018) and co-editor of Pragmatism and Justice (2017) and Pessimism of the Intellect, Optimism of the Will: The Political Philosophy of Kai Nielsen (2012).

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