Consequences of pragmatism : essays, 1972-1980 /

Rorty, Richard,

Consequences of pragmatism : essays, 1972-1980 / [print] Richard Rorty. - Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, (c)1982. - xlvii, 237 pages ; 24 cm.

The 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.



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