Richard Rorty är en av samtidens mest omdiskuterade filosofer. I denna lilla bok, bestående av tre föreläsningar, ger han en tillgänglig och elegant presentation av sin version av pragmatismen.Ur författarens förord:Titeln »Hopp i stället för kunska…
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 o…
Richard Rorty’s collected papers, written during the 1980s and now published in two volumes, take up some of the issues which divide Anglo-Saxon analytic philosophers and contemporary French and German philosophers and offer something of a com…
On Philosophy and Philosophers is a volume of unpublished philosophical papers by Richard Rorty, a central figure in late-twentieth-century intellectual debates and a primary force behind the resurgence of American pragmatism. The first collection o…
This volume presents a selection of the philosophical papers which Richard Rorty has written over the past decade, and complements three previous volumes of his papers: Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth, Essays on Heidegger and Others and Truth and…
What is truth? What value should we see in or attribute to it? 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…
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 forem…
This volume presents a selection of the philosophical essays which Richard Rorty wrote during the first decade of his career, and complements four previous volumes of his papers published by Cambridge University Press. In this long neglected body of…
I den nye rekken av Cappelens upopulære skrifter kommer FILOSOFI SOM POESI av Richard Rorty som nr. 71. Den amerikanske pragmatisten Richard Rorty (1931-2007) ble ofte ansett som en fiende av sitt eget fag, filosofien, fordi han ville overskride det…
Richard Rorty is famous, maybe even infamous, for his philosophical nonchalance. His groundbreaking work not only rejects all theories of truth but also dismisses modern epistemology and its preoccupation with knowledge and representation. At the sa…
Though coming from different and distinct intellectual traditions, Richard Rorty and Gianni Vattimo are united in their criticism of the metaphysical tradition. The challenges they put forward extend beyond philosophy and entail a reconsideration of…
Do we still need philosophical discourse as part of communication within our culture? Is philosophical endeavor still valid? This book offers the views of some of the most popular, distinguished contemporary philosophers who have placed their mark o…
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 elo…
Rorty seeks to tie philosophy's past to its future by connecting what he sees as the positive (and neglected) contributions of the American pragmatic philosophers to contemporary European developments. What emerges from his explorations is a revivif…
This volume collects a number of important and revealing interviews with Richard Rorty, spanning more than two decades of his public intellectual commentary, engagement, and criticism. In colloquial language, Rorty discusses the relevance and nonrel…
Undeniably iconoclastic, and doggedly practical where others were abstract, the late Richard Rorty was described by some as a philosopher with no philosophy. Rorty was skeptical of systems claiming to have answers, seeing scientific and aesthetic sc…
Mit Richard Rorty verstarb im Sommer 2007 einer der einflußreichsten Intellektuellen des 20. Jahrhunderts. Spätestens seit seiner aufsehenerregenden Demontage des cartesianischen Selbstverständnisses der Philosophie in "Der Spiegel d…
Från de gamla grekerna till idag har filosofer ihärdigt diskuterat hur begreppet »sanning» skall förstås. Denna antologi består av bidrag till en pågående debatt med fokus på förhållandet mellan sanning och rättfärdigande. Bidragsgivare är Richard R…
I dag opfatter mange mennesker sig som religiøse, uden at de dermed nødvendigvis tilslutter sig en bestemt relgion, Hvis man ønsker et indblik i den filosofiske og idehistoriske baggrund for dette, er Religionens fremtid og dens…
This volume complements two highly successful previously published volumes of Richard Rorty’s philosophical papers: Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth, and Essays on Heidegger and Others. The essays in the volume engage with the work of many o…
Richard Rorty (1930-2007) var en af de mest provokerende skikkelser i nyere tids filosofi. I disse veloplagte essays, artikler og forelæsninger fra 1990’erne præsenteres en bred vifte af hans filosofiske, politiske og kulturelle overbevisninge…
In this book Rorty argues that thinkers such as Nietzsche, Freud, and Wittgenstein have enabled societies to see themselves as historical contingencies, rather than as expressions of underlying, ahistorical human nature or as realizations of suprahi…
The Linguistic Turn provides a rich and representative introduction to the entire historical and doctrinal range of the linguistic philosophy movement. In two retrospective essays titled "Ten Years After" and "Twenty-Five Years After," Rorty shows h…
The sixteen essays in this volume confront the current debate about the relationship between philosophy and its history. On the one hand intellectual historians commonly accuse philosophers of writing bad - anachronistic - history of philosophy, and…
This volume comprises a number of letters between author Anindita Niyogi Balslev and philosopher Richard Rorty. The letters explore ways to generate a creative and critical crosscultural discourse not only by challenging stereotypes about cultures a…
Vi lever i en tid då den politiska samstämmigheten har gjorts till dygd inom politiken. Under 1990- och 2000-talet lämnade många socialdemokratiska partier den polariserande vänsterpositionen till förmån för det harmoniska mittenfältet.Samtidigt är…
Liberalismen förändras. Traditionellt värnade liberalismen den enskildes rätt mot staten eller majoriteten. Friheten att uttrycka sina åsikter sågs som demokratins kärna. Folkpartiet liberalernas nya linje innebär snarare att staten ska övervaka sin…
This set of four volumes brings together seminal essays spanning the career of Richard Rorty, one of the most creative and influential anglophone philosophers of recent decades. The essays range widely over the concerns of philosophy, politics, scie…
