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Richard Rorty: Education, Philosophy, and Politics

Richard Rorty: Education, Philosophy, and Politics

Best, Steven
Peters, Michael A.
Ghiraldelli, Paulo

Paperback

PhilosophyGeneral Education

ISBN10: 0742509060
ISBN13: 9780742509061
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: Dec 18 2001
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.86
Height: 0.65 Width: 5.92 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Richard Rorty's neopragmatist philosophy marks him as one of the most gifted and controversial thinkers of his time. Antifoundationalism and antirepresentationalism are the guiding motifs in his thought. He wants to jettison a set of philosophical distinctions-appearance/reality, mind/body, morality/prudence-that have dominated and shaped the history of Western philosophy since the time of Plato. It is a position that has propelled him into a series of heated debates with philosophers who are the most influential of their generation-analytic philosophers such as Quine, Davidson, Rawls, and Putnam; as well as Continental philosophers, including Habermas, Derrida, Foucault, and Lyotard. At the same time, Rorty's work has helped to break down the artificial separation between these two wings of Western philosophy by acting as an intellectual bridge between them. This distinctive collection by scholars from around the world focuses upon the cultural, educational, and political significance of his thought. The nine essays which comprise the collection examine a variety of related themes: Rorty's neopragmatism, his view of philosophy, his philosophy of education and culture, Rorty's comparison between Dewey and Foucault, his relation to postmodern theory, and, also his form of political liberalism.

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