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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.>
Table des matières
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Return of the Invisible Tomato
2. What's the Use of Calling Cavell a Pragmatist?
3. The Turn to Literature
4. Stylists of the Philosophical
5. The Personal and the Political
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
A propos de l'auteur
Áine Mahon is a Fulbright Visiting Scholar in the Department of Philosophy at The New School for Social Research, New York, USA.
