Essays on Heidegger and Others: Philosophical Papers

by Richard Rorty

• ISBN13: 9780521358781
• ISBN10: 0521358787
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1991-02-22
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Richard Rorty's collected papers, written during the 1980s and now published in two volumes, take up some of the issues which divide Anglo-Saxon analytic philosophers and contemporary French and German philosophers and offer something of a compromise - agreeing with the latter in their criticisms of traditional notions of truth and objectivity, but disagreeing with them over the political implications they draw from dropping traditional philosophical doctrines. The second volume pursues the themes of the first volume in the context of discussions of recent European philosophy focusing on the work of Heidegger and Derrida.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction: Pragmatism and post-Nietzschean philosophy	1	(8)
Part I
Philosophy as science, as metaphor, and as politics	9	(18)
Heidegger, contingency, and pragmatism	27	(23)
Wittgenstein, Heidegger, and the reification of language	50	(16)
Heidegger, Kundera, and Dickens	66	(19)
Part II
Deconstruction and circumvention	85	(22)
Two meanings of ``logocentrism'': A reply to Norris	107	(12)
Is Derrida a transcendental philosopher?	119	(10)
De Man and the American Cultural Left	129	(14)
Part III
Freud and moral reflection	143	(21)
Habermas and Lyotard on postmodernity	164	(13)
Unger, Castoriadis, and the romance of a national future	177	(16)
Moral identity and private autonomy: The case of Foucault	193	(6)
Index of names	199