Reading Rorty: Critical Responses to Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature (and beyond)

Rorty, Richard; Alan Malachowski, ed

ISBN 10: 0631161481 / ISBN 13: 9780631161486

Published by Blackwell, 1990

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xii, 384pp. DJ gently rubbed. Exceedingly clean and unmarked copy. Out of print and scarce in hardcover. 'In Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature Richard Rorty presented his provocative and influential vision of post-philosophical culture, calling upon professional philosophers to accept that epistemology is dead, that the analytic method is a myth, and that philosophy and science are merely forms of literature. In this volume, leading philosophers including W. V. Quine, Donald Davidson, Bernard Williams, Charles Taylor, John Yolton, and Martin Hollis, take up Rorty's challenge and examine the grounds for his radical conclusions. Their wide-ranging and penetrating discussions cover Rorty's views on truth, language, knowledge and the self, together with his pragmatisim, his 'continental turn' and his regard for the literary potential of philosophical writing. Reading Rorty is the most thorough analysis yet of the man whom Harold Bloom has described as 'the most interesting philosopher in the world.''.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Reading Rorty: Critical Responses to Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature (and beyond)
• Publisher: Blackwell
• Publication Date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0631161481
• ISBN 13: 9780631161486
• Binding: Hardcover with Dust Jacket
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: FINE
• Dust Jacket Condition: NEAR FINE
• Seller catalogs:
  • Philosophy

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In 'Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature' Richard Rorty presented his provocation and influential vision of the post-philosophical culture, calling upon professional philosophers to accept that epistemology is dead, that the analytic method is a myth, and that philosophy and science are merely forms of literature.