The Rorty Reader

by Voparil, Christopher J.; Bernstein, Richard J.

• ISBN13: 9781405198325
• ISBN10: 140519832X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-08-09
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

The Rorty Reader presents an in-depth introduction to and selection of essential writings of the influential American philosopher Robert Rorty (1931-2007).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 Represents the fullest portrait available today on Rorty's relationship with American pragmatism and the trajectory of his thought

Author Biography

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).

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Source Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Abbreviations	p. xvii
General Introduction	p. 1
Toward Philosophy without Mirrors	p. 53
Introduction to The Linguistic Turn	p. 60
Dewey's Metaphysics	p. 71
Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature: Introduction and Chapter VIII	p. 84
Pragmatism, Relativism, and Irrationalism	p. 111
Nineteenth-Century Idealism and Twentieth-Century Textualism	p. 122
Conversations with Analytic Philosophy	p. 139
From Logic to Language to Play	p. 145
Pragmatism, Davidson, and Truth	p. 152
Twenty-Five Years After	p. 175
Putnam and the Relativist Menace	p. 180
Analytic and Conversational Philosophy	p. 195
From Antirepresentationalism to Political Liberalism	p. 205
Philosophy as Science, as Metaphor, and as Politics	p. 211
Solidarity or Objectivity?	p. 227
The Priority of Democracy to Philosophy	p. 239
Freud and Moral Reflection	p. 259
Private Irony and Liberal Hope	p. 279
Pragmatism, Literature, and Democracy	p. 297
The Humanistic Intellectual: Eleven Theses	p. 304
Heidegger, Kundera, and Dickens	p. 307
De Man and the American Cultural Left	p. 321
Feminism and Pragmatism	p. 330
Human Rights, Rationality, and Sentimentality	p. 351
Looking Backwards from the Year 2096	p. 366
American National Pride: Whitman and Dewey	p. 372
Redemption from Egotism: James and Proust as Spiritual Exercises	p. 389
Philosophy as Cultural Politics	p. 407
Truth without Correspondence to Reality	p. 415
Ethics Without Principles	p. 425
Justice as a Larger Loyalty	p. 433
Pragmatism as Romantic Polytheism	p. 444
Religion in the Public Square: A Reconsideration	p. 456
Is "Cultural Recognition" a Useful Concept for Leftist Politics?	p. 463
Philosophy as a Transitional Genre	p. 473
Autobiographical	p. 489
From Philosophy to Post-Philosophy: An Interview with Richard Rorty	p. 493
Trotsky and the Wild Orchids	p. 500
Biography and Philosophy	p. 511
The Fire of Life	p. 520
Guide to Further Reading	p. 522
Index	p. 525
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