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Richard Rorty's new pragmatism : neither liberal nor free

Title
Richard Rorty's new pragmatism : neither liberal nor free / Edward Grippe.
Author
Grippe, Edward.
Publication
London ; New York : Continuum, ©2007.

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Description
ix, 210 pages; 25 cm.
Summary
Edward Grippe presents a study of Richard Rorty's 'New Pragmatism' on its own terms, and a critical analysis of its implications for contemporary thought.
Series Statement
Continuum studies in American philosophy
Uniform Title
Continuum studies in American philosophy.
Subject
  • Rorty, Richard
  • Rorty > Richard
  • Rorty, Richard 1931-2007
  • Rorty, Richard, 1931-2007
  • Pragmatismus
  • Pragmatisme
  • Pragmatism
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [190]-194) and index.
Contents
Introductory overview : the premises underpinning Rorty's new pragmatism -- The foundational--anti-foundational debate : its modern roots -- The contemporary debate : the epistemic regress challenge of foundationalism and its ironic impotence -- The denial of scientism and performative contradiction : the aesthetics of pragmatic narratives -- Rorty's Jeffersonian strategy : the privatization of the philosophical -- The hermeneutical approach and its implications for Rorty's Jeffersonian strategy -- Hobbes, Rorty and their common political paradox -- Freud's and Rorty's internal Cartesian paradox -- Neither liberal nor free : the singularism of new pragmatism.
ISBN
  • 9780826489012
  • 082648901X
LCCN
  • 2006038317
  • 9780826489012
OCLC
  • ocm76792049
  • 76792049
  • SCSB-9478349
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library