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The Ironist and the Romantic - Reading Richard Rorty and Stanley Cavell

English · Hardback

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At the time of his death in 2007, Richard Rorty was widely acclaimed as one of the world's most influential contemporary thinkers. Stanley Cavell, who has been a leading intellectual figure from the 1960s to the present, has been just as philosophically influential as Rorty though perhaps not as politically divisive. Both philosophers have developed from analytic to post-analytical thought, both move between philosophy, literature and cultural politics, and both re-establish American philosophical traditions in a new and nuanced key. finds the sound of Rorty's cheerful pragmatism strikingly at odds with the anxious romanticism of Cavell. Beginning from this tonal discord, and moving through comprehensive comparative analysis on the topics of scepticism, American philosophy, literature, writing style and politics, this book presents the work of its central figures in a novel and mutually illuminating perspective. Aine Mahon's unique and original comparative reading will be of interest not only to those working on Rorty and Cavell but to anyone concerned with the current state of American philosophy.

About the author

Áine Mahon is a Fulbright Visiting Scholar in the Department of Philosophy at The New School for Social Research, New York, USA.

Product details

Authors ine, Aine Kelly, ?Ine Mahon, 193 Mahon, Aine Mahon, Áine Mahon
Publisher Bloomsbury Academic
 
Languages English
Age Recommendation ages 1 to 17
Product format Hardback
Released 22.05.2014
 
EAN 9781441146014
ISBN 978-1-4411-4601-4
No. of pages 208
Series Bloomsbury Studies in American Philosophy
Bloomsbury Studies in American
Bloomsbury Studies in American
Subject Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day

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