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Philosophy and social hope / Richard Rorty.

Title
Philosophy and social hope / Richard Rorty.
Author
Rorty, Richard
Publication
New York : Penguin Books, 1999.

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Subject
  • Pragmatism
  • Philosophy, Modern > 20th century
  • Pragmatism
Note
  • "A Penguin original"--Cover.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Trotsky and the wild orchids -- Truth without correspondence to reality -- A world without substances or essences -- Ethics without principles -- The banality of pragmatism and the poetry of justice -- Pragmatism and law: a response to David Luban -- Education as socialization and as individualization -- The humanistic intellectual: eleven theses -- The pragmatist's progress: Umberto Eco on interpretation -- Religious faith, intellectual responsibility and romance -- Religion as conversation-stopper -- Thomas Kuhn, rocks and the laws of physics -- On Heidegger's Nazism -- Failed prophecies, glorious hopes -- A spectre is haunting the intellectuals: Derrida on Marx -- Love and money -- Globalization, the politics of identity and social hope -- Looking backwards from the year 2096 -- The unpatriotic academy -- Back to class politics.
ISBN
0140262881
LCCN
^^^00269736^
OCLC
  • 41311603
  • SCSB-10617846
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library