Consequences of pragmatism : essays, 1972-1980 / Richard Rorty
Imprint
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c1982
Descript
xlvii, 237 p. ; 23 cm
CONTENT
World well lost -- Keeping philosophy pure -- Overcoming the tradition -- Professionalized philosophy and transcendentalist culture -- Dewey's metaphysics -- Philosophy as a kind of writing -- Is there a problem about fictional discourse? -- Nineteenth-century idealism and twentieth-century textualism -- Pragmatism, relativism, and irrationalism -- Cavell on skepticism -- Method, social science, and social hope -- Philosophy in America today