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Summary Table of Contents Author Biography

The Rorty Reader represents the first comprehensive collection of the writings of Richard Rorty, one of the twentieth century's most influential thinkers, best known for the controversial Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature (1979). Gathering together key essays from over four decades of writings, the volume offers an in-depth introduction to the philosopher's life and prolific body of work. Topics addressed include the continuities and transformations that span Rorty's early training in the history of philosophy, his engagement with the analyti... MOREc tradition, and the 1979 publication that brought him international renown. Particular attention is devoted to his later political writings, including his turn to literature as the vehicle of moral reflection most suitable to democratic life, and his embrace of philosophy as cultural politics.With selections from The Linguistic Turn (1967), Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature (1979), Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity (1989), Achieving Our Country (1998), and his four volumes of philosophical papers, including Philosophy as Cultural Politics (2007), as well as in-depth interviews and revealing autobiographical pieces, The Rorty Reader offers a compelling and representative view of Rorty's relationship with American pragmatism and the overall intellectual trajectory of his philosophical and political thought.

The Rorty Reader presents an in-depth introduction to and selection of essential writings of the influential American philosopher Robert Rorty (1931-2007).Offers a comprehensive introduction to Richard Rorty's life and body of work Brings key essays published across many volumes and journals into one collection Represents the fullest portrait available today on Rorty's relationship with American pragmatism and the trajectory of his thought

The first comprehensive collection of the work of Richard Rorty (1931-2007), The Rorty Reader brings together the influential American philosopher�s essential essays from over four decades of writings.�

Offers a comprehensive introduction to Richard Rorty's life and body of work
Brings key essays published across many volumes and journals into one collection, including selections from his final volume of philosophical papers, Philosophy as Cultural Politics (2007))
Contains the previously unpublished (in English) essay, �Redemption from Egotism�
Includes in-depth interviews, and several revealing autobiographical pieces
Represents the fullest portrait available today on Rorty�s relationship with American pragmatism and the trajectory of his thought

Preface	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Source Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Abbreviations	p. xvii
General Introduction	p. 1
Toward Philosophy without Mirrors	p. 53
Introduction to The Linguistic Turn	p. 60
Dewey's Metaphysics	p. 71
Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature: Introduction and Chapter VIII	p. 84
Pragmatism, Re... MORElativism, and Irrationalism	p. 111
Nineteenth-Century Idealism and Twentieth-Century Textualism	p. 122
Conversations with Analytic Philosophy	p. 139
From Logic to Language to Play	p. 145
Pragmatism, Davidson, and Truth	p. 152
Twenty-Five Years After	p. 175
Putnam and the Relativist Menace	p. 180
Analytic and Conversational Philosophy	p. 195
From Antirepresentationalism to Political Liberalism	p. 205
Philosophy as Science, as Metaphor, and as Politics	p. 211
Solidarity or Objectivity?	p. 227
The Priority of Democracy to Philosophy	p. 239
Freud and Moral Reflection	p. 259
Private Irony and Liberal Hope	p. 279
Pragmatism, Literature, and Democracy	p. 297
The Humanistic Intellectual: Eleven Theses	p. 304
Heidegger, Kundera, and Dickens	p. 307
De Man and the American Cultural Left	p. 321
Feminism and Pragmatism	p. 330
Human Rights, Rationality, and Sentimentality	p. 351
Looking Backwards from the Year 2096	p. 366
American National Pride: Whitman and Dewey	p. 372
Redemption from Egotism: James and Proust as Spiritual Exercises	p. 389
Philosophy as Cultural Politics	p. 407
Truth without Correspondence to Reality	p. 415
Ethics Without Principles	p. 425
Justice as a Larger Loyalty	p. 433
Pragmatism as Romantic Polytheism	p. 444
Religion in the Public Square: A Reconsideration	p. 456
Is "Cultural Recognition" a Useful Concept for Leftist Politics?	p. 463
Philosophy as a Transitional Genre	p. 473
Autobiographical	p. 489
From Philosophy to Post-Philosophy: An Interview with Richard Rorty	p. 493
Trotsky and the Wild Orchids	p. 500
Biography and Philosophy	p. 511
The Fire of Life	p. 520
Guide to Further Reading	p. 522
Index	p. 525
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Christopher J. Voparil is on the Graduate Faculty of Union Institute University in Cincinnati, OH, where he teaches philosophy and political theory. He is the author of Richard Rorty: Politics and Vision (2006), and has published articles in Contemporary Pragmatism, Journal of Speculative Philosophy, Philosophy and Social Criticism, and Education and Culture. He is also the current Secretary of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy. Richard J. Bernstein is Vera List Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research, New York. His most recent book is The Pragmatic Turn (Polity, 2010).

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