- Modern Philosophy, Philosophy, Modern, Pragmatism, Political and social views
"One of the most provocative figures in recent philosophical and wider literary and cultural debate, Richard Rorty brings together in this collection a wide range of philosophical, political and cultural writings, many published in book form for the first time.
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Spare, cool, classical in form and contemporary.
- sparerichly built
- cooloverwhelming
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Richard Rorty
- First published
- 1999
- Pages
- 288
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Editions
- 2
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780140262889
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Richard McKay Rorty (October 4, 1931 – June 8, 2007) was an American philosopher. Educated at the University of Chicago and Yale University, he had strong interests and training in both the history of philosophy and contemporary analytic philosophy, the latter of which came to comprise the main focus of his work at Princeton University in the 1960s. He subsequently came to reject the tradition of philosophy according to which knowledge involves correct representation (a "mirror of nature") of a world whose existence remains wholly independent of that representation. Rorty had a long and diverse academic career, including positions as Stuart Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University, Ke
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