Richard Rorty - From Pragmatist Philosophy to Cultural Politics

Richard Rorty was one of the most important philosophers of the last half of the twentieth century. His work helped effect global transformations in the way philosophy thinks about its work and role midst contemporary culture. He was influential across a diversity of disciplines in perturbing our inherited self-understandings of the place of intellectuals in culture and the roles of art, literature, science, and religion in contemporary liberal democratic society. This collection of essays, by an international and interdisciplinary group of eminent scholars and thinkers in their own right, including Jurgen Habermas, Saskia Sassen, Robert Brandom, and Richard Shusterman, presents the first complete posthumous study of Rorty's work as a whole. The collection reflects on Rorty's myriad accomplishments, with particular attention on the role of pragmatist philosophy in Rorty's increasing identification of his thinking with the work of cultural politics. The book covers the full range of Rortyan themes, including the practice of philosophy and metaphilosophy, the politics of culture, and Rorty's place in the contemporary philosophical and critical-cultural landscapes. These reflections serve to both introduce the arc of Rorty's thinking and advance the critical reception of his work.

About the author

Alexander Gröschner is Senior
Research in the School of Education at the Technische Universität München,
Germany.

Colin Koopman is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oregon, USA.

Mike Sandbothe is
Professor of Culture and Media at Jena University of Applied Sciences, Germany.

Product details

• Authors: Alexander Groeschner, Alexander (EDT)/ Sandbothe Groeschner, Colin Koopman, Colin Sandbothe Koopman, Sandbothe
• Assisted by: Alexander Groeschner (Editor), Colin Koopman (Editor), Mike Sandbothe (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.04.2013
• EAN: 9781441154262
• ISBN: 978-1-4411-5426-2
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Continuum Studies in American; Continuum Studies in American; Bloomsbury Studies in American Philosophy
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; PHILOSOPHY / Political, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Pragmatism, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Western philosophy from c 1800, Western Philosophy, From C 1900 -