... globalization virtues civic liberalism enlightened liberalism neoliberalism ideology authoritarianism Adam Smith Wilhelm von Humboldt John Stuart Mill John Rawls Richard Rorty Labeled as neoliberalism and discredited, the thinking that takes up the banner of freedom, liberalism, rings false...

... World War poetry is also examined in relation to the wartime poets. Drawing on the theoretical work of Paul Gilroy, Richard Rorty, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Martha Nussbaum, and Sigmund Freud, but above all attending to British, American, Canadian, and Irish poetry, this chapter examines First World War...

...This book aims to document Richard Rorty's journey from being an intellectually precocious adolescent on the school yards of rural New Jersey to becoming the one of the most influential contemporary American philosophers. The book reconstructs the facts of Rorty's early biography from his childhood...

...When Richard Rorty started the masters program at the University of Chicago in 1949, he entered a philosophy department that sat in many ways at odds with national trends. In a field increasingly defined by logical positivism, the university maintained an eclectic orientation. Although...

...The first few years after Richard Rorty received tenure at Princeton University in 1965 were relatively productive ones. He published little in 1966—only a two-page encyclopedia entry on Aristotle and a review of John Boler's book Charles Peirce and Scholastic Realism...

...From the earliest days of the pragmatist revival, Richard Rorty occupied an ambiguous position in the community of scholars interested in pragmatism. The fame he won for himself with Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature and Consequences of Pragmatism he gave back to pragmatism...

...Paralleling his father's experiences, Richard Rorty found his two years of military service to be emotionally trying. After being discharged, he tried to make up for lost time professionally. His first job offer—an instructorship at Wellesley College beginning in 1958 that would roll over...

... the normative commitments, and especially the dedication to principle and transparency, characteristic of liberalism. Ironically, this problem has been exacerbated by liberal thinkers such as Lionel Trilling and Richard Rorty, who themselves assert a necessary gap between liberal politics and liberal aesthetics...

... of their pragmatic implications. In its analysis, the eighteenth-century philosopher David Hume prefigures Richard Rorty’s twentieth-century account of contingency. Rorty and Hume share a similar suspicion of metaphysical debates, and they both emphasize the linguistic features of belief. Because both authors...

...For his Ph.D, Richard Rorty considered three possibilities: the philosophy departments at Harvard University or Yale University or staying on at the University of Chicago and taking his degree from the Committee on Social Thought. His mentors in the philosophy department at Chicago probably told...

...In light of the fact that the value of his Yale education had effectively diminished in an increasingly analytic disciplinary marketplace, Richard Rorty—though attracted to Yale University's pluralism—may have been of the opinion that the job was a step down from his current one, that the prospects...

...What is true of Richard Rorty is true of all other intellectuals: they are persons no less impinged upon by social mechanisms and processes than any other. This chapter outlines the major theoretical frameworks currently available to sociologists of ideas—those of Pierre Bourdieu and Randall...

...This chapter reexamines key junctures in Richard Rorty's intellectual career, this time through the lens of the sociology of ideas. It considers Rorty's choice of masters thesis topic, his movement into analytic philosophy in the 1960s, and his break with the analytic paradigm and his embracing...

...On his death in 2007, Richard Rorty was heralded by the New York Times as “one of the world's most influential contemporary thinkers.” Controversial on the left and the right for his critiques of objectivity and political radicalism, Rorty experienced a renown denied to all...