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Consequences Of Pragmatism - Essays 1972-1980 (Paperback, New Ed)
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Consequences Of Pragmatism - Essays 1972-1980 (Paperback, New Ed)
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Rorty seeks to tie philosophy's past to its future by connecting
what he sees as the positive (and neglected) contributions of the
American pragmatic philosophers to contemporary European
developments. What emerges from his explorations is a revivified
version of pragmatism that offers new hope for the future of
philosophy."Rorty's dazzling tour through the history of modern
philosophy, and his critical account of its present state (the best
general introduction in print), is actually an argument that what
we consider perennial problems--mind and body, consciousness and
objects, the foundations of knowledge, the fact/value
distinction--are merely the dead-ends this picture leads us into."
Los Angeles Times Book Review"It can immediately be said that
Consequences of Pragmatism must be read by both those who believe
that they agree and those who believe that they disagree with
Richard Rorty. [He] is far and away the most provocative
philosophical writer working in North America today, and
Consequences of Pragmatism should make this claim even
stronger."The Review of Metaphysics"Philosophy, for Rorty, is a
form of writing, a literary genre, closer to literary criticism
than anything else, a criticism which takes for one of its major
concerns the texts of the past recognized as philosophical: it
interprets interpretations. If anyone doubts the continued vigor
and continuing relevance of American pragmatism, the doubts can be
laid to rest by reading this book." Religious Studies Review
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