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Philosophy as Poetry Rorty Pdf

Richard Rorty
Prophet and Poet of the New Pragmatism

Richard Rorty
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Price: $95.00
Hardcover - 302 pages
Release Date: November 1993
ISBN10: 0-7914-1771-9
ISBN13: 978-0-7914-1771-3

Price: $33.95
Paperback - 302 pages
Release Date: October 1993
ISBN10: 0-7914-1772-7
ISBN13: 978-0-7914-1772-0

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This book is a discussion of the nature and import of Richard Rorty's philosophy, particularly as it relates to his reevaluation of American pragmatism. Rorty's thinking is assessed within the context of both modern and postmodern intellectual trends, and his thought is contrasted with that of his principal contemporaries in America and Europe, including Donald Davidson, W. V. O. Quine, Jurgen Habermas, Michel Foucault, Martin Heidegger, and Jacques Derrida.

"This is a beautifully written, excellently lucid discussion of Rorty's philosophy. It is written from a position of large sympathy with Rorty's concerns and projects. It exhibits a broad and detailed knowledge both of Rorty's own writings and of those other philosophers in terms of whose work his positions have to be defined and criticized. It does in a way redo Rorty's work more thoroughly and sometimes more carefully than Rorty has done himself.

"Hall provides an insightful reading of Rorty, enabling us, as no one else has done so far, to consider how Rorty's views might be strengthened without abandoning his most important theses." -- Alasdair MacIntyre, University of Notre Dame

"I found the book extremely interesting--enough so that I set aside some pressing tasks in order to finish it. The scope of the author's learning is not only impressive, it contributes to an unusual and especially relevant perspective. The result is a compelling critique, not only of Rorty but also of the most important figures and movements that have influenced him and to which he responds and, in some cases, of other commentators on these. It may seem an odd comment, but I found Hall more interesting than I find Rorty. This book is important as a critical study in the history of ideas and of the culture of philosophy rather than simply as a study of Rorty." -- Beth J. Singer, Brooklyn College, City University of New York

"Against the current backdrop of widespread 'Rorty-bashing' it is a decided pleasure to read an evaluation like Hall's that is so thoroughly familiar with--and able to make sense of--Rorty's complete corpus. This book is written from a knowledgeable, as well as an authoritative perspective. In addition, Hall is such a gifted writer, a master of poetic prose, that the book he writes is a literary marvel worthy of its subject. He often does a better job of explaining and defending certain Rortian insights than does Rorty. He thus qualifies as a 'first-rate' critic, in Rorty's own terms, managing to construct a narrative recontextualization of Rorty's work that will do great service to the critical understanding of this pivotal twentieth-century American philosopher."-- George R. Lucas, Jr., The National Endowment for the Humanities

"I like the book's depth and range of scholarship, the clarity of expression, its ability simultaneously to attain an interior understanding of Rorty's philosophical authorship and to maintain a critical perspective. The book brings into focus both unexplored connections among various strands of Rorty's writings and unremarked connections between Rorty's project and other contemporary philosophical endeavors." -- Vincent Colapietro

David L. Hall is Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Texas at El Paso. He is the author of The Arimaspian Eye; Eros and Irony: A Prelude to Philosophical Anarchism; and co-author with Roger T. Ames of Thinking Through Confucius, all published by SUNY Press.

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Table of Contents

Abbreviations

Acknowledgments

Pretext: Through the Looking Glass

1. Holding One's Time in Thought

Rorty's Grand Narrative
The Legitimacy Question
Strands of Modernity
The Need for Narratives
Is This Historicism?

2. An Old Name for Some New Ways of Thinking

The Aesthetic Axis of American Philosophy
From Experience to Language
Keeping Pragmatism Pure
Pragmatism and Politics
Heroes (and Villains) of the New Pragmatism

3. Irony's Master, Irony's Slave

A Strong Misreading of Irony
Irony on the Offensive
Philosophy without Irony: Jurgen Habermas
Irony and the Liberal Conscience: Michel Foucault
Der Fall des Heideggers

4. Excursus ad Hominem

Lonely Provincialism
Sincere Ethnocentrism
Pale Heroics
A Bashful Prophet
A Diffident Poet

5. Circumvention and Circumlocution

Rorty's Methodophobia
Ars Contextualis
Around and About Derrida
The Search for Private Perfection

Epitext: Guide for Those Still Perplexed

Notes

Name Index

Subject Index



Philosophy as Poetry Rorty Pdf

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