Richard Rorty : prophet and poet of the new pragmatism
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Richard Rorty : prophet and poet of the new pragmatism
(SUNY series in philosophy)
State University of New York Press, c1994
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-276) and indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
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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