Philosophy and Social Hope
Since Plato most philosophy has aimed at true knowledge, penetrating beneath appearances to an underlying reality. Against this tradition, Richard Rorty convincingly argues, pragmatism offers a new philosophy of hope. One of the most controversial figures in recent philosophical and wider literary and cultural debate, Rorty brings together an original collection of his most recent philosophical and cultural writings. He explains in a fascinating memoir how he began to move away from Plato towards William James and Dewey, culminating in his own version of pragmatism. What ultimately matters, Rorty suggests, is not whether our ideas correspond…
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- ISBN: 978-0-14-026288-9
- EAN: 9780140262889
- Produktnummer: 19338814
- Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1999
- Seitenangabe: 320 S.
- Masse: H19.6 cm x B13.0 cm x D2.0 cm 238 g
- Gewicht: 238
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Richard Rorty is Professor of Comparative Literature at Stanford University. He is the author of PHILSOPHY AND THE MIRROR OF NATURE, CONTINGENCY, IRONY AND SOLIDARITY, and ACHIEVING OUR COUNTRY.
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