The Rorty Reader
Published on 9. April 2010
Book
Paperback/Softback
566 pages
978-1-4051-9832-5 (ISBN)
Description
The first comprehensive collection of the work of Richard Rorty (1931-2007), The Rorty Reader brings together the influential American philosopher's essential essays from over four decades of writings.
* Offers a comprehensive introduction to Richard Rorty's life and body of work
* Brings key essays published across many volumes and journals into one collection, including selections from his final volume of philosophical papers, Philosophy as Cultural Politics (2007))
* Contains the previously unpublished (in English) essay, "Redemption from Egotism"
* Includes in-depth interviews, and several revealing autobiographical pieces
* Represents the fullest portrait available today on Rorty's relationship with American pragmatism and the trajectory of his thought
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Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
Hoboken
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 24.5 cm
Width: 17.3 cm
Thickness: 3 cm
Weight
1012 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4051-9832-5 (9781405198325)
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Christopher J. Voparil | Richard J. Bernstein
The Rorty Reader
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04/2010
Wiley
€103.06
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Persons
Christopher J. Voparil is on the Graduate Faculty of Union Institute & University in Cincinnati, OH, where he teaches philosophy and political theory. He is the author of Richard Rorty: Politics and Vision (2006), and has published articles in Contemporary Pragmatism, Journal of Speculative Philosophy, Philosophy and Social Criticism, and Education and Culture. He is also the current Secretary of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy.
Richard J. Bernstein is Vera List Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research, New York. His most recent book is The Pragmatic Turn (Polity, 2010).
Content
Preface
Acknowledgments
Source Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
General Introduction
Part I: Toward Philosophy without Mirrors
Part II: Conversations with Analytic Philosophy
Part III: From Antirepresentationalism to Political Liberalism
Part IV: Pragmatism, Literature, and Democracy
Part V: Philosophy as Cultural Politics
Part VI: Autobiographical
Guide to Further Reading
Index