The Cambridge companion to Rorty

Author(s)

• Rondel, David

Bibliographic Information

The Cambridge companion to Rorty

edited by David Rondel

（Cambridge companions to philosophy）

Cambridge University Press, 2021

• : hardback

Other Title

Companion to Rorty

Rorty

Note

Summary: "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 ..."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 323-344) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This Companion provides a systematic introductory overview of Richard Rorty's philosophy. With chapters from an interdisciplinary group of leading scholars, the volume addresses virtually every aspect of Rorty's thought, from his philosophical views on truth and representation and his youthful obsession with wild orchids to his ruminations on the contemporary American Left and his prescient warning about the election of Donald Trump. Other topics covered include his various assessments of classical American pragmatism, feminism, liberalism, religion, literature, and philosophy itself. Sympathetic in some cases, in others sharply critical, the essays will provide readers with a deep and illuminating portrait of Rorty's exciting brand of neopragmatism.

Table of Contents

• Introduction: The Unity of Richard Rorty's Philosophy David Rondel
• 1. Rorty's Metaphilosophy: A Pluralistic Corridor Colin Koopman
• 2. After Metaphysics: Eliminativism and the Protreptic Dilemma Neil Gascoigne
• 3. Rorty and Classical Pragmatism Christopher Voparil
• 4. A Pragmatism More Ironic Than Pragmatic Barry Allen
• 5. Rorty and Semantic Minimalism Simon Blackburn
• 6. Returning to the Particular: Morality and the Self after Rorty Alan Malachowski
• 7. Rorty's Political Philosophy Michael Bacon and Alexis Dianda
• 8. Tinkering with Truth, Tinkering with Difference: Rorty and (Liberal) Feminism Susan Dieleman
• 9. Rorty's Insouciant Social Thought James T. Kloppenberg
• 10. Rorty and National Pride Georgia Warnke
• 11. Rorty on Religion Stephen S. Bush
• 12. Rorty: Reading Continental Philosophy Paul Patton
• 13. Rorty's Literary Culture: Reading, Redemption, and the Heart's Invisible Furies Aine Mahon and Elizabeth O'Brien
• 14. Wild Orchids Robert Westbrook.

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Details

• NCID: BC04539905
• ISBN:
  • 9781108496575
• LCCN: 2020055259
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Cambridge
• Pages/Volumes: xi, 349 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : B945.R524
  • DC23 : 191
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Rorty, Richard
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA13898347