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La modernite en questions: De Richard Rorty a Jurgen Habermas : actes de la decade de Cerisy-la-Salle, 2-11 juillet 1993 (Passages) (French Edition)
Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Rorty and the Mirror of Nature (Routledge Philosophy GuideBooks) by James Tartaglia, 2007-08-02
Through a Glass Darkly: Bernard Lonergan & Richard Rorty on Knowing Without a God's-eye View (Marquette Studies in Philosophy) by R. j. Snell, 2006-11-05
The Linguistic Turn: Recent Essays in Philosophical Method (Midway Reprints) by Richard Rorty, 1988-02
Feminist Interpretations of Richard Rorty (Re-Reading the Canon)
Richard Rorty (Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers)
Richard Rorty: Pragmatism and Political Liberalism by Michael Bacon, 2008-06-09
For the Love of Perfection: Richard Rorty and Liberal Education by René Vincente Arcilla, 1994-12-01
Richard Rorty's New Pragmatism: Neither Liberal nor Free (Continuum Studies in American Philosophy) by Edward J. Grippe, 2007-06-23
Richard Rorty's Politics: Liberalism at the End of the American Century by Markar Melkonian, 1999-12
The Last Conceptual Revolution: A Critique of Richard Rorty's Political Philosophy (S U N Y Series in Speech Communication) by Eric Gander, 1998-12
Richard Rorty (Einfuhrungen) (German Edition) by Walter Reese-Schafer, 1991
Richard Rorty (Munster Lectures on Philosophy) by Andreas Vieth, 2005-08-01
Richard Rorty: Ironie, politiek en postmodernisme (Dutch Edition)

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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
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Extractions: 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!
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
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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
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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
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Extractions: 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.
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
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Extractions: 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. Wolins 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'.
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

Extractions: Advertisement dc_tile = dc_tile + 1; document.write(''); Advertisement dc_tile = dc_tile + 1; document.write(''); Print this page E-mail this page News, Views and Careers for All of Higher Education June 13 By Scott McLemee Word that Richard Rorty was on his deathbed â that he had pancreatic cancer, the same disease that killed Jacques Derrida almost three years ago â reached me last month via someone who more or less made me swear not to say anything about it in public. The promise was easy enough to keep. But the news made reading various recent books by and about Rorty an awfully complicated enterprise. The interviews in Take Care of Freedom and Truth Will Take Care of Itself (Stanford University Press, 2006) and the fourth volume of Rortyâs collected papers, Philosophy as Cultural Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2007) are so bracingly quick-witted that it was very hard to think of them as his final books. Upgrading to Philosophy 2.0
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
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
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Extractions: Wisdom's Children 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)
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

Extractions: Europe's cultural journals ... Comment Philosopher, poet and friend The American philosopher Richard Rorty passed away on Friday. Rorty, whose work ranges over an unusually broad intellectual terrain, was the author of many works, including "Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature" (1979), "Consequences of Pragmatism" (1982), and "Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity" (1989). I received the news in an email almost exactly a year ago. As so often in recent years, Rorty voiced his resignation at the " war president " Bush, whose policies deeply aggrieved him, the patriot who had always sought to "achieve" his country. After three or four paragraphs of sarcastic analysis came the unexpected sentence: " Alas, I have come down with the same disease that
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

Extractions: Notes on Richard Rorty and Habermas (C.E.) 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.
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 hadnt read much philosophy since
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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
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Extractions: Syndicate this site (XML) Main 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 no unique way to translate the results of a model into an interpretation of the real world. This is trivial for those who know it, but not everyone does. That means when DSquared writes : "[The case for free trade] can't be derived in an economy with a positive rate of profit; Ian Steedman proved this one in a series of papers discussed on Rob Vienneau's blog" the correct response is one never thought it could be derived in the first place.
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

Extractions: 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.
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
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Extractions: 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.
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

Extractions: 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.
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
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RICHARD RORTY
Take Care of Freedom and Truth Will Take Care of Itself Interviews with richard rorty. Ed. Eduardo Mendieta. Stanford Stanford UP, 2005.
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Extractions: Homepage SOURCES: PRIMARY Off-Line: 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.
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
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Extractions: 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
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
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.
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