Title:
Consequences of pragmatism : essays, 1972-1980 / Richard Rorty.
Author:
Rorty, Richard.
General Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The world well lost -- Keeping philosophy pure -- Overcoming the tradition -- Professionalized philosophy and transcendentalist culture -- Dewey's metaphysics -- Philosophy as a kind of writing -- Is there a problem about fictional discourse? -- Nineteenth-century idealism and twentieth-century textualism -- Pragmatism, relativism, and irrationalism -- Cavell on skepticism -- Method, social science, and social hope -- Philosophy in America today.
Publisher:
University of Minnesota Press,
Publication Place:
Minneapolis :
ISBN:
0816610630 :
0816610649 (pbk.) :
Subject:
Philosophy.
Pragmatism.
Contents:
The world well lost -- Keeping philosophy pure -- Overcoming the tradition -- Professionalized philosophy and transcendentalist culture -- Dewey's metaphysics -- Philosophy as a kind of writing -- Is there a problem about fictional discourse? -- Nineteenth-century idealism and twentieth-century textualism -- Pragmatism, relativism, and irrationalism -- Cavell on skepticism -- Method, social science, and social hope -- Philosophy in America today.
Physical Description:
xlvii, 237 p. ;
Publication Date:
c1982.
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