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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

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

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Princeton University Library