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 nonrelevance of philosophy to American political and public life. The collection also provides candid set of insights into Rorty's political beliefs and his commitment to the labor and union traditions in this country. Finally, the interviews reveal Rorty to be a deeply engaged social thinker and observer.
By:
Richard Rorty
Edited by:
Eduardo Mendieta
General editor:
Eduardo Mendieta
Imprint: Stanford University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: New edition
Dimensions:
Height: 229mm,
Width: 152mm,
Spine: 14mm
Weight: 340g
ISBN: 9780804746182
ISBN 10: 0804746184
Series: Cultural Memory in the Present
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 29 November 2005
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
,
A / AS level
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Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
@fmct:Contents @toc4:Acknowledgments iii Introduction @tocca:Eduardo Mendieta iii @toc2:1 The Quest for Uncertainty: Richard Rorty's Pilgrimage 000 2 From Philosophy to Postphilosophy 000 3 Postphilosophical Politics 000 4 After Philosophy, Democracy 000 5 Toward a Postmetaphysical Culture 000 6 There is a Crisis Coming: A Conversation with Richard Rorty 000 7 Persuasion is a Good Thing 000 8 On Philosophy and Politics 000 9 The Best Can Be an Enemy of the Better 000 10 On September 11, 2001 000 11 Worlds or Words Apart? The Consequences of Pragmatism for Literary Studies 000 12 Biography and Philosophy 000 @toc4:Bibliography of Richard Rorty's Writings 000 Sources 000
Richard Rorty is Professor of Comparative Literature at Stanford University. He is the author of three volumes of Philosophical Papers (1991-1998), and Philosophy and Social Hope (1999). Eduardo Mendieta is Associate Professor of Philosophy at SUNY, Stony Brook. He is the author of Adventures of Transcendental Philosophy: Karl-Otto Apel's Semiotics and Discourse Ethics (2002).
Reviews for Take Care of Freedom and Truth Will Take Care of Itself: Interviews with Richard Rorty
The United States has produced a great many idiosyncratic champions of human freedom, Walt Whitman and William James above all. It is time to recognize Rorty's place in that lineage. - Dissent Rorty is an extraordinarily important and influential philosopher, both inside and outside philosophy. His thoughtful political and social views are worth presenting in interview format ... Many of the interviews here are otherwise inaccessible, making this collection invaluable. - Samuel C. Wheeler III, University of Connecticut
