Philosophy and Social Hope by Richard Rorty (2000, Uk-B Format Paperback)

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Philosophy and Social Hope by Richard Rorty (2000, Uk-B Format Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherPenguin Publishing Group

ISBN-100140262881

ISBN-139780140262889

eBay Product ID (ePID)1671848

Product Key Features

Book TitlePhilosophy and Social Hope

Number of Pages320 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2000

TopicSocial, Movements / Pragmatism, History & Theory, General

GenrePolitical Science, Philosophy

AuthorRichard Rorty

FormatUk-B Format Paperback

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Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight8.5 Oz

Item Length7.9 in

Item Width5 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN00-269736

Dewey Edition21

Grade FromTwelfth Grade

Dewey Decimal191

Grade ToUP

Table Of ContentAcknowledgments Preface Introduction: Relativism: Finding and Making I. Autobiographical 1. Trotsy and the Wild Orchids II. Hope in Place of Knowledge: A Version of Pragmatism 2. Truth without Correspondence to Reality 3. A World without Substances or Essences 4. Ethics without Principles III. Some Applications of Pragmatism 5. The Banality of Pragmatism and the Poetry of Justice 6. Pragmatism and Law: A Response to David Luban 7. Education as Socialization and as Individuation 8. The Humanistic Intellectual: Eleven Theses 9. The Pragmatist's Progress: Umberto Eco on Interpretation 10. Religious Fatih, Intellectual Responsibility and Romance 11. Religion as Conversation-stopper 12. Thomas Kuhn, Rocks, and the Laws of Physics 13. On Heidegger's Nazism IV. Politics 14. Failed Prophecies, Glorious Hopes 15. A Spectre is Haunting the Intellectuals: Derrida on Marx 16. Love and Money 17. Globalization, the Politics of Identity and Social Hope V. Contemporary America 18. Looking Backwards from the Year 2096 19. The Unpatriotic Academy 20. Back to Class Politics Afterword: Pragmatism, Pluralism and Postmodernism Index

SynopsisRichard Rorty is one of the most provocative figures in recent philosophical, literary and cultural debate. This collection brings together those of his writings aimed at a wider audience, many published in book form for the first time. In these eloquent essays, articles and lectures, Rorty gives a stimulating summary of his central philosophical beliefs and how they relate to his political hopes; he also offers some challenging insights into contemporary America, justice, education and love.

LC Classification NumberB945.R521R67 1999