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Nachdem Richard Rorty Ende der 1970er Jahre die westlich-neuzeitliche Philosophie einer grundstürzenden Kritik unterzogen hatte, setzte er sich sogleich an die Spitze einer intellektuellen Bewegung, die unter dem Label »Neopragmatismus« auch außerhalb der Philosophie enorm einflussreich geworden ist. Über die Jahrzehnte hat Rorty seine Version des Pragmatismus ständig erweitert und verfeinert, unter anderem in legendären Vorlesungen an der Universität von Girona. Sie bilden das Kernstück dieses Buches, das nicht weniger bietet als die finale Version von Rortys...

When it first appeared in 1979, Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature hit the philosophical world like a bombshell. In it, Richard Rorty argued that, beginning in the seventeenth century, philosophers developed an unhealthy obsession with the notion of representation: comparing the mind to a mirror that reflects reality. Rorty's book is a powerful critique of this imagery and the tradition of thought that it spawned.

Today, the book remains a must-read and stands as a classic of twentieth-century philosophy. Its influence on the academy, both within philosophy and across a...

The war over the meaning and utility of truth is at the center of contemporary philosophical debate, and its arguments have rocked the foundations of philosophical practice. In this book, the American pragmatist Richard Rorty and the French analytic philosopher Pascal Engel present their radically different perspectives on truth and its correspondence to reality.

Rorty doubts that the notion of truth can be of any practical use and points to the preconceptions that lie behind truth in both the intellectual and social...

Must the sins of America's past poison its hope for the future? Lately the American Left, withdrawing into the ivied halls of academe to rue the nation's shame, has answered yes in both word and deed. In Achieving Our Country, one of America's foremost philosophers challenges this lost generation of the Left to understand the role it might play in the great tradition of democratic intellectual labor that started with writers like Walt Whitman and John Dewey.

How have national pride and American patriotism come to seem an endorsement of atrocities--from slavery to the slaughter...