Contingency and Normativity: The Challenges of Richard Rorty
Title | Contingency and Normativity: The Challenges of Richard Rorty PDF eBook |
Author | Rosa Maria Calcaterra |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 154 |
Release | 2019-03-27 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9004393838 |
Contingentism depicts normativity as one of our human effective possibilities rather than as a metaphysical bottleneck which we should necessary fulfill. The book is a critical survey of Richard McKay Rorty’s “neo-pragmatism”, in the light of various theoretical arguments as well as of his own resourceful attempts to renew philosophy from within its practice.
Rorty, Religion, and Metaphysics
Title | Rorty, Religion, and Metaphysics PDF eBook |
Author | John Owens |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Pages | 231 |
Release | 2019-09-05 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1498560393 |
Believing that humanity would be better off if it simply dropped its traditional religious and metaphysical beliefs, Richard Rorty proposes an alternative approach, drawn from the American pragmatist tradition, where things get their significance against a background of broad human interests, and knowledge is regarded as part of the active pursuit of a better world. Rorty, Religion, and Metaphysics argues that while Rorty’s case is clearly and robustly made, it is fundamentally challenged by the phenomenon of human recognition, the relationship that arises between people when they talk to one another. John Owens demonstrates that recognition, so central to human life, cannot be accommodated within Rorty’s proposals, given that it precisely attributes a reality to others that goes beyond anything a pragmatist framework can offer. It follows that there is more to human interaction than can be explained by Rorty’s pragmatism.
The Ethics, Epistemology, and Politics of Richard Rorty
Title | The Ethics, Epistemology, and Politics of Richard Rorty PDF eBook |
Author | Giancarlo Marchetti |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 297 |
Release | 2021-11-04 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1000472744 |
This book features fourteen original essays that critically engage the philosophy of Richard Rorty, with an emphasis on his ethics, epistemology, and politics. Inspired by James’ and Dewey’s pragmatism, Rorty urged us to rethink the role of science and truth with a liberal-democratic vision of politics. In doing so, he criticized philosophy as a sheer scholastic endeavor and put it back in touch with our most pressing cultural and human needs. The essays in this volume employ the conceptual tools and argumentative techniques of analytic philosophy and pragmatism and demonstrate the relevance of Rorty’s thought to the most urgent questions of our time. They touch on a number of topics, including but not limited to structural injustice, rule-following, Black feminist philosophy, legal pragmatism, moral progress, relativism, and skepticism. This book will be of interest to a wide range of scholars across disciplines who are engaging with the work of Richard Rorty.
The Practice of Political Theory
Title | The Practice of Political Theory PDF eBook |
Author | Clayton Chin |
Publisher | Columbia University Press |
Pages | 313 |
Release | 2018-08-28 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0231547994 |
Recent political thought has grappled with a crisis in philosophical foundations: how do we justify the explicit and implicit normative claims and assumptions that guide political decisions and social criticism? In The Practice of Political Theory, Clayton Chin presents a critical reconstruction of the work of Richard Rorty that intervenes in the current surge of methodological debates in political thought, arguing that Rorty provides us with unrecognized tools for resolving key foundational issues. Chin illustrates the significance of Rorty’s thought for contemporary political thinking, casting his conception of “philosophy as cultural politics” as a resource for new models of sociopolitical criticism. He juxtaposes Rorty’s pragmatism with the ontological turn, illuminating them as alternative interventions in the current debate over the crisis of foundations in philosophy. Chin places Rorty in dialogue with continental philosophy and those working within its legacy. Focused on both important questions in pragmatist scholarship and central issues in contemporary political thought, The Practice of Political Theory is an important response to the vexed questions of justification and pluralism.
Achieving Our Country
Title | Achieving Our Country PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Rorty |
Publisher | |
Pages | 159 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9780674003125 |
One of America's foremost philosophers challenges the lost generation of the American Left to understand the role it might play in the great tradition of democratic intellectual labor that started with writers such as Walt Whitman and John Dewey.
Kant's Tribunal of Reason
Title | Kant's Tribunal of Reason PDF eBook |
Author | Sofie Møller |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 211 |
Release | 2020-03-05 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1108498493 |
This is the first book-length study in English of Kant's legal metaphors, whose philosophical importance has so far been overlooked. It will appeal to academic researchers and advanced students of Kant, early modern philosophy, legal philosophy, and intellectual history.
Revisiting Richard Rorty
Title | Revisiting Richard Rorty PDF eBook |
Author | Pedro Góis Moreira |
Publisher | Vernon Press |
Pages | 275 |
Release | 2020-05-05 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1622739205 |
Richard Rorty is considered one of the most original philosophers of the last decades, and he has generated warm enthusiasm on the part of many intellectuals and students, within and outside the field of philosophy. The collection opens with an essay by Robert Brandom, in which he continues the discussion of Rorty’s “vocabulary vocabulary” that he began in Rorty and his Critics, and ends with an interview in which Brandom talks about Rorty himself as a teacher and friend. The collection is then divided into three further sections, each addressing an aspect of Rorty’s thought. First, a political section contains several essays discussing Rorty’s notorious “prophecy” in Achieving our Country and the idea that he would have foreseen the rise of a political “strongman.” Also discussed are Rorty's view of the cultural left, his view of the relation between truth and democracy, and Rorty on the concept of fraternity. In a second, epistemological section, several essays address Rorty’s historicism, anti-representationalism, and his views on truth and on religion, often through the lenses of his critics (Putnam, Habermas, Dews). A final section addresses the relations between Rorty and other philosophers such as Hume, Heidegger, and Ortega y Gasset. This works contains valuable essays in three languages — English, Portuguese, and Spanish — and is a small example of the reach of Rorty’s thought and its expansion beyond the Anglo-Saxon world in only ten years after his death. It will appeal to Rorty’s scholars and researchers as well as any student of pragmatism and anti-foundationalist thought.