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Richard McKay Rorty (October 4, 1931 – June 8, 2007) was an American philosopher and historian of ideas.Educated at the University of Chicago and Yale University, Rorty's academic career included appointments as the Stuart Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University, the Kenan Professor of Humanities at the University of Virginia, and as a professor of comparative literature at Stanford ...
Richard Rorty: Contemporary American Thinkers is a 2012 book on the writings of American philosopher Richard Rorty, written by Ronald A. Kuipers. The release of the book marked Bloomsbury's fifth publication in their Contemporary American Thinkers series. [1]
Achieving Our Country: Leftist Thought in Twentieth-Century America is a 1998 book by American philosopher Richard Rorty, in which the author differentiates between what he sees as the two sides of the left, a cultural left and a reformist left.
Neopragmatism [1] is a variant of pragmatism that infers that the meaning of words is a result of how they are used, rather than the objects they represent.. The Blackwell Dictionary of Western Philosophy (2004) defines "neo-pragmatism" as "A postmodern version of pragmatism developed by the American philosopher Richard Rorty and drawing inspiration from authors such as John Dewey, Martin ...
Richard Rorty (United States, 1931–2007) was one of the leading contemporary philosophers of liberalism. His fundamental claims, among others, are that liberalism is best defined as the attempt to avoid cruelty to others; that liberals need to accept the historical 'irony' that there is no metaphysical justification for their belief that not ...
Pages in category "Books by Richard Rorty" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Achieving Our ...
Rorty is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Amélie Rorty (1932–2020), Belgian-born American philosopher; James Rorty (1890–1973), American radical writer and poet, father of Richard Rorty; Malcolm C. Rorty (1875–1937), American economist; Richard Rorty (1931–2007), American philosopher
Philosophy and Social Hope is a 1999 book written by philosopher Richard Rorty and published by Penguin.The book is a collection of cultural and political essays intended to reach a wider audience and, like his previous books, it presents Rorty's own version of pragmatism.