When Richard Rorty died on June 8, 2007, obituaries lionized him as
one of the 'world's most influential cultural philosophers', and as
a thinker whose work covered a wide and varied terrain of
literature, philosophy, politics, aesthetics, and cultural
critique. Most famous for his rejection of the analytic tradition,
Rorty had a relationship to the philosophical canon, and the
discipline of philosophy, that was as fraught and full of tensions
as it is for most feminist philosophers. Rorty chose to use his
1990 Tanner Lecture on Human Values (the text of which is the first
chapter in this volume) to side with feminists Marilyn Frye,
Catherine MacKinnon, and Adrienne Rich, who tried to show the
importance of opening up new logical space within which women's
voices could be heard. ""Feminist Interpretations of Richard
Rorty"" presents classic and new essays on Rorty's engagement with
feminist philosophy, including essays about the relevance for
feminism of pragmatism, philosophy, rhetoric, realism, and
liberalism. The chapters in this volume not only take up Rorty's
conversation with feminism; they also capture, in a more distilled
form, the debates that were the central concern of feminist theory
in the late twentieth century and that continue to demand our
responses, perhaps in slightly different forms, in the beginning of
the twenty-first. In addition to the editor, the contributors are
John C. Adams, Linda Martin Alcoff, Sharyn Clough, Nancy Fraser,
Sabina Lovibond, Alessandra Tanesini, Georgia Warnke, and Stephen
R. Yarbrough.
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