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Truth was not his bag: Richard Rorty, 1931-2007.(PHILOSOPHY)(In memoriam)
IF Richard Rorty hadn't existed, it would have been necessary for the academy to invent him. Rorty, who died at 75 on June 8, epitomized a hearty American version of the Teutonic epistemic gloom that has raged like wildfire through the American university from the 1970s to, well, at least to the day before yesterday. When I was in graduate school, Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature (1979), Rorty's declaration of intellectual apostasy, was regarded with awe, wonder, and adulation. Here was a man who had made his philosophical reputation through the careful analysis of concepts--his book The Linguistic Turn (1967) bears witness to his skill in that direction--and now he ...
- Davidson's Theory of Truth and Its Implications for Rorty's Pragmatism.(Review)
- Magazine article from: The Review of Metaphysics Dann, Gary E. December 1, 1999 700+ words
...Davidson's Theory of Truth and Its Implications for Rorty's Pragmatism. American...planned and developed: Rorty's view of truth and justification; Putnam...in general sympathy with Rorty's view of truth, especially with his criticisms...
- Take Care of Freedom and Truth Will Take Care of Itself: Interviews with...
- Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News May 1, 2006 700+ words
0804746184 Take care of freedom and truth will take care of itself; interviews with Richard Rorty. Rorty, Richard. Ed. by Eduardo Mendieta...this is a collection of responses by Rorty (comparative literature, Stanford U...
- Eminent, Ironic, Unpopular: The Hopeful Richard Rorty.(Arts&Entertainment)
- Newspaper article from: The New York Observer (New York, NY) January 31, 2000 700+ words
...elemental dignity, the truth may help us abide...ignorance. Richard Rorty, America's pre...traditionally recognizable as truth. For Mr. Rorty, the best Galileo...above all, Mr. Rorty's beloved Dewey: that truth is made and not found...
- Richard Rorty, Liberal Absolutist.(Review)
- Magazine article from: Policy Review LINKER, DAMON April 1, 2000 700+ words
...inseparable from the question of truth in moral matters. That is, until Richard Rorty. In a series of books beginning...Mirror of Nature (1979), Rorty has attained an astonishing...reach an imaginary timeless truth, Rorty wonders "why philosophers...
- Rorty's America.(Richard Rorty)
- Perspectives on Political Science LAWLER, PETER AUGUSTINE September 22, 1998 700+ words
...and other forms of human misery. Rorty calls this new kind of philosophy...activity.(8) THE PRAGMATIC VIEW OF TRUTH Rorty repeatedly acknowledges that the alleviation of misery is, in truth, as arbitrary a goal as any other...
- Rorty, Richard
- Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences January 1, 2008 700+ words
...1804). According to Rorty, this tradition privileged a conception of truth that sought to bring the...Cambridge University Press. Rorty, Richard. 1991. Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth: Philosophical Papers...Cambridge University Press. Rorty, Richard. 1993. Human...
- Rorty, Richard. Philosophy as Cultural Politics.(Book review)
- Magazine article from: The Review of Metaphysics Rist, John March 1, 2008 700+ words
...in a vain search for Truth or Reality. To repair...3, 139). Much of Rorty's book is a display...anything more than change. Rorty wants to insist that...explication. Though Rorty denies the existence of Truth and holds that the progress...
- How Richard Rorty found religion.
- Magazine article from: First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life Boffetti, Jason May 1, 2004 700+ words
...universe--one that, as Rorty has lately begun to acknowledge...relation with "God" or "Truth" once filled. Rorty has known the call of intense...that radiated redemptive truth and moral splendor." But Rorty harbored boyish, "private...
