41. Dick Rorty: The Inspirational Value Of Great Works Of Literature richard rorty, Achieving Our Country Leftist Thought in TwentiethCentury America (Cambridge Harvard University Press, 1998), pp. 125-140 http://home.uchicago.edu/~adyaphe/inspiration.html

Richard Rorty, Achieving Our Country: Leftist Thought in Twentieth-Century America (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998), pp. 125-140 The Inspirational Value of Great Works of Literature Nil admirari prope res est una, Numici, Solaque quae possit facere et servare beatum. (To stand in awe of nothing, Nimicius, is practically the only way to feel really good about yourself) Horace, Epistles, I.vi. 1-2 THE SELF-PROTECTIVE PROJECT described in this familiar Horatian tag is exemplified by one strain of thought in Fredric Jameson's influential Postmodernism, or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism. In one of the most depressing passages of that profoundly antiromantic book, Jameson says that "the end of the bourgeois ego, or monad, . . . means ... the end ... of style, in the sense of the unique and the personal, the end of the distinctive individual brush stroke." Later he says that if the poststructuralist motif of the "death of the subject" means anything socially, it signals the end of the entrepreneurial and inner-directed individualism with its "charisma" and its accompanying categorial panoply of quaint romantic values such as that of the "genius" ... Our social order is richer in information and more literate ... This new order no longer needs prophets and seers of the high modernist and charismatic type, whether among its cultural products or its politicians. Such figures no longer hold any charm or magic for the subjects of a corporate, collectivized, post-individualistic age; in that case, goodbye to them without regret, as Brecht might have put it: woe to the country that needs geniuses, prophets, Great Writers, or demiurges!

42. FIRST THINGS: On The Square » Blog Archive » Richard Rorty, R.I.P. richard rorty has died, passing away on Friday, June 8. A uniquely American mix of philosopher, pragmatist, and provocateur, richard rorty was the grandson http://www.firstthings.com/onthesquare/?p=768

43. Richard Rorty | Obituaries | Guardian Unlimited richard rorty, who has died aged 75, was a rarity an American philosopher who enjoyed a high reputation in France and Germany, and a public intellectual http://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,,2100636,00.html

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44. Margins For Error - Bookforum.com / In Print I had known for several months that richard rorty was terminally ill when Bookforum asked, last spring, whether I would consider reviewing what his http://www.bookforum.com/inprint/014_03/850

home in print archive advertise ... Sept/Oct/Nov 2007 Margins for Error By ARTHUR C. DANTO Philosophy as Cultural Politics: Philosophical Papers, Vol.4 by Richard Rorty $22.99 List Price More information: Amazon Booksense I had known for several months that Richard Rorty was terminally ill when Bookforum As part of a set of memorial tributes to Rorty published recently in Slate Or again: Perhaps these provocations are rhetorically connected. As a rule, Rorty used the word true the way everyone else does, but if you were to ask him for his theory of truth, he would say something outrageous. He did so because he believed we all know when and how to use the word true Philosophy as Cultural Politics Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature Richard Rorty, Oxford, 2003. In a particularly straightforward chapter in Philosophy as Cultural Politics But what if philosophy gets into difficulties just by attempting to insinuate itself into other human activities? What if Rorty himself has gotten in trouble with his audiences and readers by inserting into his analysis of reality propositions about knowledge and certainty that have a place in philosophy but not in life? Philosophy of Right The progress of this conversation has engendered new social practices, and changes in the vocabularies deployed in moral and political deliberation. To suggest further novelties is to intervene in cultural politics. Dewey hoped that philosophy professors would see such intervention as their principal assignment.

45. Trotsky And The Wild Orchids richard rorty. Reprinted from Philosophy and Social Hope (Penguin Books, 1999). 3 If there is anything to the idea that the best intellectual position is http://www.philosophy.uncc.edu/mleldrid/cmt/rrtwo.html

Trotsky and the Wild Orchids Richard Rorty Reprinted from Philosophy and Social Hope (Penguin Books, 1999). The Closing of the American Mind led Harvey Mansfield - recently appointed by President Bush to the National Council for the Humanities - to say that I have 'given up on America' and that I 'manage to diminish even Dewey'. (Mansfield recently described Dewey as a 'medium-sized malefactor'.) His colleague on the council, my fellow philosopher John Searle, thinks that standards can only be restored to American higher education if people abandon the views on truth, knowledge and objectivity that I do my best to inculcate. Yet Sheldon Wolin, speaking from the left, sees a lot of similarity between me and Allan Bloom: both of us, he says, are intellectual snobs who care only about the leisured, cultured elite to which we [4]belong. Neither of us has anything to say to blacks, or to other groups who have been shunted aside by American society. Wolin’s view is echoed by Terry Eagleton, Britain's leading Marxist thinker. Eagleton says that 'in [Rorty's] ideal society the intellectuals will be "ironists", practising a suitably cavalier, laid-back attitude to their own belief, while the masses, for whom such self-ironizing might prove too subversive a weapon, will continue to salute the flag and take life seriously'. Der Spiegel said that I 'attempt to make the yuppie regression look good'. Jonathan Culler, one of Derrida's chief disciples and expositors, says that my version of pragmatism 'seems altogether appropriate to the age of Reagan'. Richard Bernstein says that my views are 'little more than an ideological apologia for an old-fashioned version of Cold War liberalism dressed up in fashionable "post-modem" discourse'. The left's favourite word for me is 'complacent', just as the right's is 'irresponsible'.

46. Requiem For A Heavyweight :: Inside Higher Ed :: Jobs, News And Views For All Of Word that richard rorty was on his deathbed – that he had pancreatic cancer, the same disease that killed Jacques Derrida almost three years ago – reached http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2007/06/13/mclemee

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47. Legal Theory Blog: Richard Rorty (1931-2007) richard rorty (his homepage is here) passed away on Friday, June 8, 2007. My first serious encounter with rorty s work was his magnificient book, http://lsolum.typepad.com/legaltheory/2007/06/richard_rorty_1.html

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48. Richard Rorty, Thomas Nagel, And The Platonic Myth To be sure, this is not the Platonic picture of going above the divided line and seeing the forms, but in richard rorty s language, it is still part of the http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/billramey/rorty.htm

Wisdom's Children Richard Rorty, Thomas Nagel, and the Platonic Myth by Bill Ramey I. G. E. Moore and Thomas Nagel J. M. Keynes had this to say about G. E. Moore's intuitive acceptance of philosophical realism: Moore had a nightmare once in which he could not distinguish propositions from tables. But even when he was awake, he could not distinguish love and beauty and truth from the furniture. They took on the same definition of outline, the same stable, solid, objective qualities and common sense reality. (Qtd. in White: 94) Commenting on the various attempts by realists to bridge the gap between belief and knowledge, Thomas Nagel writes: "A fourth reaction is to turn one's back on the abyss and announce that one is now on the other side. This was done by G. E. Moore" (69n). Given that Nagel's response to this reaction is confined to this one statement, found in a footnote, Nagel does not seem to share Moore's philosophical optimism in crossing the abyss. Nevertheless, Nagel at least thinks that we should try to cross the abyss, even if we never get to the other side: [T]he thing we can do which comes closest to getting outside of ourselves is to form a detached idea of the world that includes us, and includes our possession of that conception as part of what it enables us to understand about ourselves. (70)

49. Jürgen Habermas: Philosopher, Poet And Friend - Signandsight The American philosopher richard rorty passed away on Friday. rorty, whose work ranges over an unusually broad intellectual terrain, was the author of many http://www.signandsight.com/features/1386.html

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50. Richard Rorty While rejecting the metaphysical and ethical foundations of the Enlightenment, rorty seeks to preserve its classically liberal intention of expanding the http://caae.phil.cmu.edu/Cavalier/Forum/meta/background/rorty.html

Notes on Richard Rorty and Habermas (C.E.) Commonalities between Rorty and Habermas: liberal politics, solidarity, and "communicative community" While rejecting the metaphysical and ethical foundations of the Enlightenment, Rorty seeks to preserve its classically liberal intention of expanding the circle of personhood to include all persons, over against more traditional hierarchies which exclude specified "Others" (e.g., women, people of color, etc.). In his terms, he urges "that we try to extend our sense of 'we' to people whom we have previously thought of as 'they.'" (192) On his account, the Enlightenment built this extension on the philosophical assumption of a core self, an essential humanity in all human beings. In particular, this extension of humanity for Kant (whom Rorty takes up as the exemplary liberal Enlightenment philosopher) rests upon the assumption of a shared reason as such a central core. On Rorty's account, however, such reason and its moral obligations are divorced from feelings, e.g., of pity and benevolence. Over against this view, Rorty argues for a sense of human solidarity based precisely on feeling.

51. Richard Rorty, 1931-2007 | TPMCafe When I started reading richard rorty and listening to him lecture in the ‘80s, I was both refreshed and exasperated. I hadn’t read much philosophy since http://www.tpmcafe.com/blog/coffeehouse/2007/jun/10/richard_rorty_1931_2007

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52. Marginal Revolution: Richard Rorty Dies richard rorty dies. Here is one account, not many obits are up yet. rorty was important for economists for a few reasons 1. He emphasized that there is http://www.marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2007/06/richard_rorty_d.htm

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53. Richard Rorty's Conceptions Of Spectators Versus Agents In Liberalism In May 1999, I managed to pick up a book I d been wanting for two semesters richard rorty s Achieving Our Country. rorty left the philosophy department http://www.csudh.edu/dearhabermas/rorty01.htm

A Jeanne Site Richard Rorty's Plea for a Country Which Assumes Its Own Existential Responsibility California State University, Dominguez Hills University of Wisconsin, Parkside Latest update: July 7, 1999 Faculty on the Site. Rorty's Achieving Our Country Link added May 17, 1999 Internet Links on Some of Rorty's References Achieving Our Country at amazon.com External Site Achieving Our Country Brief review by Jeanne April 9, 2000 In May 1999, I managed to pick up a book I'd been wanting for two semesters: Richard Rorty's Achieving Our Country . Rorty left the philosophy department where he had spent most of his career to become the University Professor of Humanities at the University of Virginia. This book is adapted from Rorty's Massey Lecture of 1997. Critics (in the New York Review of Books, for example) have accused Rorty of trying to find some kind of liberal enlightenment to which we as a country could aspire. Some also complain that he offers no specific plan of achieving his Leftist goal (See the reviews on amazon.com.) I disagree. Rorty is doing very much what we have done when we have spoken in our discussions of major issues that are not nearly resolved enough yet to be translated into our laws. Rorty is speaking of hope, of inspiration, of caring about the project we see as our country. He is speaking of finding the motivation for our identity and our inspiration as a country within our own deeds and actions, those of which we are ashamed, as well as those of which we can and should be proud. He is speaking of our motivation coming from our own communal interdependent discourse on who we are and what we want to become.

54. Richard Rorty, 1931-2007 | MetaFilter But much more so anyone who has done so at the level of richard rorty, i.e., who has done so in a discursive universe where ideas must stand on their rigor http://www.metafilter.com/61944/Richard-Rorty-19312007

skip to main content MetaFilter AskMeFi Projects ... New User Tags: rorty pragmatism obituaries cancer ... obit var federated_media_section = ''; Advertise here: Contact FM Richard Rorty, 1931-2007 June 9, 2007 10:28 PM Subscribe Richard Rorty, American Pragmatist philosopher, has died of pancreatic cancer. posted by washburn (61 comments total) 8 users marked this as a favorite Wikipedia on Rorty . His voice will be missed. posted by washburn at 10:31 PM on June 9 Fascinating guy. He made Derrida ever so slightly less incomprehensible, his political philosophy managed to piss off the conventional branches of both the right and left wings, and his model of the ideal thinker as "Ironist" managed to combine the simple humility of Socratic wisdom with the cutting edge radicalism of the deconstructionists. posted by infinitywaltz at 10:50 PM on June 9 [ 1 favorite Admittedly, I barely know what I'm talking about, and roughtly 98 percent of Rorty's ideas sail right over my head, but still. posted by infinitywaltz at 10:51 PM on June 9 period posted by zorro astor at 10:59 PM on June 9 posted by at 11:08 PM on June 9 prev posted by rider at 11:19 PM on June 9 His work redefined knowledge ' as a matter of conversation and of social practice, rather than as an attempt to mirror nature

55. Richard Rorty And Brian Eno In fact, I don t think Eno s antiessentialism would be as articulate without richard rorty s writings. The following is a very brief description of rorty s http://music.hyperreal.org/artists/brian_eno/rorty.html

Richard Rorty and Brian Eno by Gregory Taylor Richard Rorty's career bears some superficial resemblances to Eno's, in that he begins his career in a position in which he's essentially located somewhere in the "mainstream" (as Eno's first exposure occurs in the context of British "pop" music with Roxy Music), at some point heads off in what seems to be a radically different sort of territory (which leaves some of his philosophical colleagues longing out loud for his "early stuff"), and in the process finds himself drawn into quite another set of alignments. And - this is more of a stretch - *both* Rorty and Eno are in some respects interested in looking at the work of "non-practitioners" - the notion that one occasionally finds novel solutions to a given dilemma by consulting people who are "nonmusicians" or "nonphilosophers." When asked about his work, many philosophers (those in the Anglo-American tradition, anyway) will generally say something supportive about his earlier work as one of the major American analytic philosophers. They're referring to his work in the philosophy of mind, language, and truth, and will usually mention his 1979 book "Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature." But of late, his interest for folks like Eno and people interested in cultural studies and literary theory begins when he pretty much completely repudiated his earlier analytic work for a kind of pragmatism which is a lot more in sync with the philosophical positions of continental European philosophers and theorists such as Heidegger, Derrida, Lyotard, Habermas, and Foucault.

56. Richard Rorty, Popular Philosopher And Champion Of Pragmatism, Is Dead At 75 - The noted philosopher richard rorty died on Friday in Palo Alto, Calif., after a battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 75. During his career, Mr. rorty held http://chronicle.com/news/article/2467/richard-rorty-popular-philosopher-and-cha

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57. RICHARD RORTY Take Care of Freedom and Truth Will Take Care of Itself Interviews with richard rorty. Ed. Eduardo Mendieta. Stanford Stanford UP, 2005. http://www.phillwebb.net/History/TwentiethCentury/Pragmatism/Rorty/Rorty.htm

CONTENTS HISTORY ANCIENT (CLASSICAL) Epicureanism Neoplatonism ... Architecture Arts (Performing) Arts (Visual and Plastic) Film Literature Audience ... SPORTS GENERAL ASSOCIATIONS CAREERS CONFERENCES JOURNALS ... WWW GATEWAYS ALTERNATIVE STANDPOINTS Feminist Theory Aesthetics/ Critical Theory Post-colonial Theory Aesthetics / Critical Theory RICHARD RORTY (1931 - 2007) Homepage SOURCES: PRIMARY Off-Line: Anthologies: Philosophy and Social Hope . Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1999. Philosophical Papers . 4 Vols. Cambridge: CUP. Philosophy as Cultural Politics . Vol. 4. 2007. Truth and Progress . Vol. 3. 1998. Essays on Heidegger and Others . Vol. 2. 1991. Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth . Vol. 1. 1991. Consequences of Pragmatism: Essays, 1972-1980 . Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1982. Edited Works: Philosophy in History . Ed. Rorty, J. B. Schneewind and Quentin Skinner. Cambridge: CUP, 1985. The Linguistic Turn: Essays in Philosophical Method . Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1967. Rpt. 1992.

58. The Space Of Reasons: Richard Rorty, 1931-2007 richard rorty, the leading American philosopher and heir to the pragmatist tradition, passed away on Friday, June 8. He was Professor of Comparative http://thespaceofreasons.blogspot.com/2007/06/richard-rorty-1931-2007.html

The Space of Reasons Adventures in Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind and that Pesky John McDowell! Saturday, 9 June 2007 Richard Rorty, 1931-2007 The following obit is taken from today's issue of Telos Richard Rorty, the leading American philosopher and heir to the pragmatist tradition, passed away on Friday, June 8. He was Professor of Comparative Literature emeritus at Stanford University. In April the American Philosophical Society awarded him the Thomas Jefferson Medal. The prize citation reads: "In recognition of his influential and distinctively American contribution to philosophy and, more widely, to humanistic studies. His work redefined knowledge 'as a matter of conversation and of social practice, rather than as an attempt to mirror nature' and thus redefined philosophy itself as an unending, democratically disciplined, social and cultural activity of inquiry, reflection, and exchange, rather than an activity governed and validated by the concept of objective, extramental truth." At the awards ceremony, presenter Lionel Gossman celebrated Dr. Rorty as an advocate of "a deeply liberal, democratic, and truly American way of thinking about knowledge." Dr. Rorty's published works include Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature Consequences of Pragmatism Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity

59. Stanford Philosophy Department: Faculty, Staff And Students richard rorty (19312007) Formerly Professor of Comparative Literature and Professor of Philosophy. Personal Portrait http://www-philosophy.stanford.edu/fss/rr.html

Richard Rorty (1931-2007) Formerly Professor of Comparative Literature and Professor of Philosophy Education History B.A. University of Chicago, 1949 M.A. University of Chicago, 1952 Ph.D. Yale University, 1956 Areas of Interest Continental philosophy, Pragmatism Selected Bibliography Books: Achieving our Country: Leftist Thought In Twentieth Century America (Harvard UP, 1998) Truth and Progress: Philosophical Papers, VOL. 3 (Cambridge UP, 1998) Philosophy and Social Hope (Penguin, 1999) Recent Courses "Nietzsche and William James" "Heidegger and Derrida" "Foucault and Habermas" "Davidson and Gadamer" Links and Online Papers

60. Achenblog richard rorty died. I used to call him when I needed an emergency quote from a philosopher. Every reporter needs a goto philosopher in his or her Rolodex. http://blog.washingtonpost.com/achenblog/2007/06/richard_rorty.html

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