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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 context of both modern and postmodern intellectual trends, and his thought is contrasted with that of his principal contemporaries in America and Europe, including Donald Davidson, W. V. O. Quine, Jürgen Habermas, Michel Foucault, Martin Heidegger, and Jacques Derrida.

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Abbreviations Acknowledgments Pretext: Through the Looking Glass 1. Holding One's Time in Thought Rorty's Grand Narrative The Legitimacy Question Strands of Modernity The Need for Narratives Is This Historicism? 2. An Old Name for Some New Ways of Thinking The Aesthetic Axis of American Philosophy From Experience to Language Keeping Pragmatism Pure Pragmatism and Politics Heroes (and Villains) of the New Pragmatism 3. Irony's Master, Irony's Slave A Strong Misreading of Irony Irony on the Offensive Philosophy without Irony: Jurgen Habermas Irony and the Liberal Conscience: Michel Foucault Der Fall des Heideggers 4. Excursus ad Hominem Lonely Provincialism Sincere Ethnocentrism Pale Heroics A Bashful Prophet A Diffident Poet 5. Circumvention and Circumlocution Rorty's Methodophobia Ars Contextualis Around and About Derrida The Search for Private Perfection Epitext: Guide for Those Still Perplexed Notes Name Index Subject Index

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