Richard Rorty
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Richard Rorty
Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity
In this 1989 book Rorty argues that thinkers such as Nietzsche, Freud, and Wittgenstein have enabled societies to see themselves as historical contingencies, rather than as expressions of underlying, ahistorical human nature or as realizations of suprahistorical goals.
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Richard Rorty
Philosophy and Social Hope
Richard Rorty is one of the provocative figures in philosophical, literary and cultural debate. This collection brings together those of his writings.
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Richard Rorty
Achieving Our Country
Must the sins of America’s past poison its hope for the future? Lately the American Left, withdrawing into the halls of academe to rue the nation’s shame, has answered yes in word and deed.
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Richard (Stanford University, California) Rorty
Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth
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.
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