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Richard Rorty

Richard Rorty

Ronald A. Kuipers

An introduction to and overview of Rorty's ideas, his writings and his contributions to the various fields of philosophy
Contingency, irony, and solidarity

Contingency, irony, and solidarity

Richard Rorty

Rorty examines human solidarity and liberalism through literature, philosophy, social theory and literary criticism.
The Ways of a King: Legal and Political Ideas in the Bible

The Ways of a King: Legal and Political Ideas in the Bible

Geoffrey P. Miller

17 Dale Launderville's Piety and Politics: The Dynamics of Royal Authority in Homeric Greece, Biblical Israel, and. 10 Richard Rorty, Contingency, Irony and Solidarity (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989). Rorty's approach to ...
Languages of Art: An Approach to a Theory of Symbols

Languages of Art: An Approach to a Theory of Symbols

Nelson Goodman

. . . Unlike Dewey, he has provided detailed incisive argumentation, and has shown just where the dogmas and dualisms break down." -- Richard Rorty, The Yale Review
John Dewey and American Democracy

John Dewey and American Democracy

Robert B. Westbrook

This book will do a great deal to make Dewey more available and plausible, and to help his writings shape the imagination of a new generation of Americans.'--Richard Rorty, New Leader
Critical Environments: Postmodern Theory and the Pragmatics ...

Critical Environments: Postmodern Theory and the Pragmatics ...

Cary Wolfe

Unique in its collation of major theorists rarely considered together, Critical Environments incorporates detailed discussions of the work of Richard Rorty, Walter Benn Michaels, Stanley Cavell, Humberto Maturana, Francisco Varela, Niklas ...
Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and ...

Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and ...

Deborah Tannen

Ringelheim, Joan, Arwen Donahue, and Amy Rubin. 1998. Oral history interview guidelines. Washington, D.C.: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Rorty, Richard. 1967. The linguistic turn. Chicago: Chicago University Press.
Take Care of Freedom and Truth Will Take Care of Itself: ...

Take Care of Freedom and Truth Will Take Care of Itself: ...

Richard Rorty

Trans. Henk Moerdijk and Kitty Jonk. Amsterdam: Boom, 1998. -. Russian translation: Obretaia nashu stranu: Politika levylch v ... Hebrew translation [partial ]: Trans. Michal Rosenthal. In Mikarov 4 (2000). -. Japanese translation: Amerika mikan ...
Democracy as Discussion: Civic Education and the American ...

Democracy as Discussion: Civic Education and the American ...

William M. Keith

... Bob I-Iariman, Darrin Hicks, Robert Iltis, Bob Ivie, John Lyne, Peter McBurney, Matt McGarrity, Tim O'Donnell, Brett Ommen, Angela Ray, Rob Ricigliano, Bill Rehg, Mark Risjord, Richard Rorty, Mal Sillars, Tim Steffensmeier and Ken Zagacki.
Deconstruction and Pragmatism

Deconstruction and Pragmatism

Hans Jonas Professor of Philosophy Simon Critchley

Hans Jonas Professor of Philosophy Simon Critchley, Simon Critchley, Jacques Derrida, Ernesto Laclau, Richard Rorty Chantal Mouffe. is the dominant and hegemonic tendency in the history of politics in the West). This is a very serious ...
Deconstruction and pragmatism

Deconstruction and pragmatism

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Anyone wishing to understand the philosophical and political standpoints of Rorty and Derrida should read this book.
Exploring the Work of Edward S. Casey: Giving Voice to ...

Exploring the Work of Edward S. Casey: Giving Voice to ...

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... John W Woell Peirce''s Philosophy of Communication, Mats Bergman Peirce''s Pragmatic Theory of Inquiry, Elizabeth Cooke Philosophy of History After Hayden White, edited by Robert Doran Pragmatist Metaphysics, Sami Pihlstr''om Quine on Meaning, Eve Gaudet Quine''s Naturalism, Paul A. Gregory Reality and Its Appearance, Nicholas Rescher Relativism in Contemporary American Philosophy, Timothy M. Mosteller Richard Rorty, edited by Alexander Gr''oschner, Colin Koopman, ...
Defending Rorty: Pragmatism and Liberal Virtue

Defending Rorty: Pragmatism and Liberal Virtue

William Curtis

inescapable, metaphysical (and perhaps theistic) foundations for ethics.15 The latter camp, which includes Ruth Abbey, Stephen K. White, and Nicholas H. Smith, presents a more historicist, postmodern Taylor whose articulation of our moral ...
Philosophy of Human Rights: Readings in Context

Philosophy of Human Rights: Readings in Context

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Sources include authors such as Aristotle, Cicero, Thomas Aquinas, Confucius, Hobbes, Locke, rant. Marx, Gandhi. Hart, Feinberg, Nussbaum, the Dalai Lama, Derrida, Lyocard and Rorty.
The Practical Muse: Pragmatist Poetics in Hulme, Pound, and ...

The Practical Muse: Pragmatist Poetics in Hulme, Pound, and ...

Patricia Rae

Patricia Rae's study, while accepting Rorty's view that there is philosophical solidarity between pragmatism and modernism, rejects his interpretation of both as forms of dogmatic skepticism.
Richard Middleton, the Man and His Work

Richard Middleton, the Man and His Work

Henry Savage

Richard Middleton . . . Frontispiece Camera Portrait by E. O. Hoppé. Facing page Richard Middleton at the Age of 7 . . 10 Richard Middleton in Fancy Dress . . 28 A Bohemian Gathering . . . . 36 Sketch by Herbert Garland. Richard Middleton at ...
Freedom’s Prophet: Bishop Richard Allen, the AME Church, and ...

Freedom’s Prophet: Bishop Richard Allen, the AME Church, and ...

Richard S. Newman

Bishop Richard Allen, the AME Church, and the Black Founding Fathers Richard S. Newman ... —Richard Allen, “An Address to Those Who Keep Slaves and Approve the Practice” With his coauthorship of the yellow-fever pamphlet, Richard ...
New Historicism and Renaissance Drama

New Historicism and Renaissance Drama

Richard Wilson

Richard Wilson, University of Louisville Kentucky Richard Wilson, Humanities Distinguished Professor of English Richard Dutton, Richard Dutton. First published 1992 by Longman Group Limited Published 2013 by Routledge 2 Park Square, ...
The Stage History of Shakespeare's King Richard the Third

The Stage History of Shakespeare's King Richard the Third

Alice Ida Perry Wood

In 1610, Robert Niccol's new edition of The Mirror for Magistrates appeared, in which there were two poems on Richard the Third, The Two Princes, and Richard III, the last to replace Segar's poem, Richard Plantagenet, Duke of Gloucester, ...
The Cinema of Richard Linklater: Walk, Don't Run

The Cinema of Richard Linklater: Walk, Don't Run

Rob Stone

... Richard Linklater Cinematography: Richard Linklater Editor: Richard Linklater Main Cast: Richard Linklater, James Goodwin, Daniel Kratochvil, Linda Finney, Tracy Crabtree, Linda Levine, Lisa Schiebold, Erin MCafée, Denise Montgomery,  ...
Richard III

Richard III

Richard Andersen

Richard Andersen. Berger, Harry Jr. "Conscience and Complicity in Richard III," in Richard III, edited by Thomas Cartelli. New York: Norton, 2009. Bloom, Harold. Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human. New York: Riverhead Books, 1998.
Programming of Life

Programming of Life

Donald E. Johnson

Dawkins (Richard), “Book Review,” The New York Times, 4/9/89, section 7, p3. Dawkins (Richard), River Out of Eden,1995, p83. Dawkins (Richard), The Blind Watchmaker, 1996B. Dawkins (Richard), Climbing Mount Improbable, 1996C.
The Best Books for Academic Libraries: Language and literature

The Best Books for Academic Libraries: Language and literature

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B78 1991 Burton, Richard D. E., Baudelaire and the Second Republic : writing and revolution / Richard D.E. Burton. Oxford [England] .... PQ2230.S84 Stowe, Richard S. Alexandre Dumas (pere) / by Richard S. Stowe. Boston : Twayne ...
Through the Eyes of Darwin and Genesis:

Through the Eyes of Darwin and Genesis:

Bill Nielsen

Dawkins, Richard. An Appetite for Wonder. New York: Ecco, 2013. Dawkins, Richard. The Blind Watchmaker. London: Penguin, 1986. Dawkins, Richard. The God Delusion. New York: First Mariner Books, 2008. Dawkins, Richard. The Greatest ...
War over Lemuria: Richard Shaver, Ray Palmer and the ...

War over Lemuria: Richard Shaver, Ray Palmer and the ...

Richard Toronto

Richard Shaver, Ray Palmer and the Strangest Chapter of 1940s Science Fiction Richard Toronto . Interview by author. Telephone. August 17, 1983. Yerxa, Richard. Interview by author. Telephone. 2008. Letters Ackerman, Forrest J. Letter to ...
Probability's Nature and Nature's Probability - Lite: A ...

Probability's Nature and Nature's Probability - Lite: A ...

Donald E. Johnson

Dawkins (Richard), The Selfish Gene, 1976. Dawkins (Richard),”The Necessity of Darwinism,” New Scientist: 94, 4/15/82, p130. Dawkins (Richard), Scientific American, 6/88. Dawkins (Richard), “Book Review,” The New York Times, 4/9/89,  ...
Anecdotes of the Life of Richard Watson, Bishop of Landaff;

Anecdotes of the Life of Richard Watson, Bishop of Landaff;

Richard Watson

A N E O DOT ES OF THE LIFE OF RICHARD WATSON, BISHOP OF LAN DAFF: WRITTEN BY HIM SELF AT DIFFERENT INTERVALS, AND REVISED IN 1814. PUBLISHED BY HIS SON, RICHARD WATSON, LL.B. PREBENDARY OF ...
Black Boy

Black Boy

Richard Wright

At four years of age, Richard Wright set fire to his home; at five his father deserted the family; by six Richard was - ­ temporarily - an alcoholic.
Life and Inventions of Richard Roberts, 1789-1864

Life and Inventions of Richard Roberts, 1789-1864

Richard Leslie Hills

This is a biography of Richard Roberts, one of Britain's greatest inventors and the father of production engineering.
Archaeopteryx

Archaeopteryx

Richard M. Gaines

Richard M. Gaines. Richard M. Gaines ARCHAEOTERYX A Buddy Book by Richard M. Gaines \ .__. Cover.

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