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Richard Rorty - The Making of an American Philosopher (Paperback)
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On his death in 2007, Richard Rorty was heralded by the New York
Times as "one of the world's most influential contemporary
thinkers." Controversial on the left and the right for his
critiques of objectivity and political radicalism, Rorty
experienced a renown denied to all but a handful of living
philosophers. In this masterly biography, Neil Gross explores the
path of Rorty's thought over the decades in order to trace the
intellectual and professional journey that led him to that
prominence. The child of a pair of leftist writers who worried that
their precocious son "wasn't rebellious enough," Rorty enrolled at
the University of Chicago at the age of fifteen. There he came
under the tutelage of polymath Richard McKeon, whose catholic
approach to philosophical systems would profoundly influence
Rorty's own thought. Doctoral work at Yale led to Rorty's landing a
job at Princeton, where his colleagues were primarily analytic
philosophers. With a series of publications in the 1960s, Rorty
quickly established himself as a strong thinker in that
tradition--but by the late 1970s Rorty had eschewed the idea of
objective truth altogether, urging philosophers to take a "relaxed
attitude" toward the question of logical rigor. Drawing on the
pragmatism of John Dewey, he argued that philosophers should
instead open themselves up to multiple methods of thought and
sources of knowledge--an approach that would culminate in the
publication of Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature, one of the most
seminal and controversial philosophical works of our time. In clear
and compelling fashion, Gross sets that surprising shift in Rorty's
thought in the context of his life and social experiences,
revealing the many disparate influences that contribute to the
making of knowledge. As much a book about the growth of ideas as it
is a biography of a philosopher, Richard Rorty will provide readers
with a fresh understanding of both the man and the course of
twentieth-century thought.
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Imprint: |
University of Chicago Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
July 2019 |
Authors: |
Neil Gross
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 25mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
390 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-226-67648-7 |
Categories: |
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LSN: |
0-226-67648-X |
Barcode: |
9780226676487 |
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