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    Philosophy and Social Hope

    Author Richard Rorty
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    Penguin Adult HC/TR | Penguin Books
    On sale Jan 01, 2000 | 320 Pages | 9780140262889
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    Richard 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.
    Acknowledgments
    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

    Richard Rorty is a professor in the Department of Comparative Literature at Stanford University and the author of many books of philosophy, including Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature; Contingency, Irony & Solidarity; and Achieving Our Country: Leftist Thought in 20th-Century America. View titles by Richard Rorty

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    Richard 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.

    Table of Contents

    Acknowledgments
    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

    Author

    Richard Rorty is a professor in the Department of Comparative Literature at Stanford University and the author of many books of philosophy, including Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature; Contingency, Irony & Solidarity; and Achieving Our Country: Leftist Thought in 20th-Century America. View titles by Richard Rorty

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