Libros de Richard Rorty

What's The Use Of Truth?

• 96 páginas
• The war over the meaning and utility of truth is at the center of contemporary philosophical debate, and its arguments have rocked the foundations of philosophical practice. In this book, the American pragmatist Richard Rorty and the French analytic philo...

Philosophy As Cultural Politics: Volume 4

• 220 páginas
• This volume presents a selection of the philosophical papers which Richard Rorty has written over the past decade, and complements three previous volumes of his papers: Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth, Essays on Heidegger and Others and Truth and Progr...

Philosophy As Cultural Politics

Take Care Of Freedom And Truth Will Take Care Of Itself

• 213 páginas
• This volume collects a number of important and revealing interviews with Richard Rorty, spanning more than two decades of his public intellectual commentary, engagement, and criticism. In colloquial language, Rorty discusses the relevance and nonrelevance...

Achieving Our Country

• 170 páginas
• The author argues that the Left wing in America sees the sins of America's past poisoning hope for the future, and challenges the

Philosophy And Social Hope

• 320 páginas
• An introduction to Richard Rorty, a provocative figure in recent philosophical, literary and cultural debate. The book includes his most influential work along with some more polemical and less strictly philosophical essays in a summary of his central...

Truth And Progress

• This eagerly awaited book complements two highly successful previously published volumes of Richard

Empiricism And The Philosophy Of Mind

• 181 páginas
• The most important work by one of America's greatest twentieth-century philosophers, Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind is both the epitome of Wilfrid Sellars' entire philosophical system and a key document in the history of philosophy. First...

Debating The State Of Philosophy

Interpretation And Overinterpretation

• 151 páginas
• The limits of interpretation--what a text can actually be said to mean--are of double interest to a semiotician whose own novels' intriguing complexity has provoked his readers into intense speculation as to their meaning. Eco's illuminating and...

Kontingenz, Ironie Und Solidarität

• 323 páginas

Objectivity, Relativism, And Truth

• 226 páginas
• In this volume Rorty offers a Deweyan account of objectivity as intersubjectivity, one that drops claims about universal validity and instead focuses on utility for the purposes of a community. The sense in which the natural sciences are exemplary for...

Essays On Heidegger And Others

Contingency, Irony, And Solidarity

• 201 páginas
• "Richard Rorty is one of the most provocative and influential thinkers of our time. His sustained critique of the foundationalist, metaphysical aspirations of philosophy has had a galvanizing effect both inside and outside philosophy departments,...

Philosophy In History

• 403 páginas
• The sixteen essays in this volume confront the current debate about the relationship between philosophy and its history. On the one hand intellectual historians commonly accuse philosophers of writing bad - anachronistic - history of philosophy, and on...

Consequences Of Pragmatism: Essays 1972-1980

• 237 páginas
• Rorty seeks to tie philosophy's past to its future by connecting what he sees as the positive (and neglected) contributions of the American pragmatic philosophers to contemporary European developments. What emerges from his explorations is a revivified...