Biography - Rorty, Richard (1931-2007): An article from: ...
Author: Gale Reference Team Binding: Digital Format: HTML Number Of Pages: 7 Publication Date: 2007-01-01 Release Date: 2007-12-16 [... more]
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Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth: Philosophical Papers ...
 anti-scientific?: A reader, Lechman, wrote here that "All scientists and engineers would reject Rortys ideas as extremely sloppy and antiscientific." Having not read this particular book (I gave it 4 stars to keep the score as I found it), I [... more]
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Essays on Heidegger and Others: Philosophical Papers ...
Don't be taken in: WOW. That's what most people will say as they read this & think what a brilliant stylist Rorty is, how reasonable he makes his ideas sound, how "postmodern" and original etc. etc. it all is, bringing in Heidegger and [... more]
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Philosophy as Cultural Politics: Philosophical Papers, ...
Book Description: This volume presents a selection of philosophical papers which Richard Rorty has written over the past decade. Topics discussed include the changing role of philosophy in Western culture over the course of recent centuries, the role of [... more]
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Truth and Progress: Philosophical Papers (Philosophical ...
Amazon.com Review: The philosopher's task, Richard Rorty writes, is "to clear the road for prophets and poets, to make intellectual life a bit simpler and safer for those who have visions of new communities." The essays collected in Truth and [... more]
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Take Care of Freedom and Truth Will Take Care of Itself: ...
A witty romp, well worth a read: Rorty has become a cultural phenomenon unto himself, standing (with Chomsky and a few others) as one of America's most famous intellectuals (so it's more than a bit distressing to discover here that he's convinced we're [... more]
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Philosophy as Cultural Politics: Philosophical Papers ...
Book Description: This volume presents a selection of philosophical papers which Richard Rorty has written over the past decade. Topics discussed include the changing role of philosophy in Western culture over the course of recent centuries, the role of [... more]
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The Future of Religion
Overcoming Dualism; Or How To Get to the Market via Mars: Richard Rorty and Gianni Vattimo have given us a work that may be described as an important part of an answer to two important questions that modernity has not yet engaged constructively. First, [... more]
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Achieving Our Country : Leftist Thought in ...
Amazon.com Review: There are many shameful incidents in America's past: the institution of slavery, genocidal assaults on the indigenous peoples of this continent, the escalation of the Vietnam War, and so on. What should our response to such acts be? [... more]
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Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity
big ideas, clear writing, with only a few gaps: Rorty's book is an articulate and very clearly written attempt to deal with one major modern philosophical question, namely: "If nothing (or everything) is true (or real), what grounds are there for [... more]
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What's the Use of Truth?
What is the use of brief discussions about truth?: I give this 3 stars because it is not a very good addition to the literature already on Rorty, but it is a decent discussion (considering its brevity) on some important philosophical themes. At less than [... more]
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Consequences of Pragmatism: Essays, 1972-1980
Pragmatic Dogmatics: Roty, the grand disciple of Dewey and the most articulate pragmatist, elucidates some of the most bothering aspects of pragmatism in this book. In some of these essays, however, one could not help but feel that Roty is over [... more]
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