... Richard Rorty transcendental idealism The late political journalist Sam Francis coined the term “anarcho-tyranny” to describe a situation in which the modern state ignores many of its own laws (e.g., the failure to enforce immigration laws) only to regulate, with increasing zeal and efficiency...

... interpretations of Nietzsche, especially Susan Sontag, Charles Altieri, and Richard Rorty. It argues that Roth’s importance lies in the challenge his writing offers to each of these major aesthetic traditions. Booth Wayne C Buell Laurence Davis Todd F Nussbaum Martha on the relationship between literature...

... William Jefferson Thomas feminism Richard Rorty cultural politics politics of redescription social meaning Charles Darwin linguistic pragmatism culture My sense of the holy, insofar as I have one, is bound up with the hope that someday, any millennium now, my remote descendants will live...

... mutually reinforcing variables—the institutional, the personal, and the cultural—each of which is best accentuated in one of a trio of pragmatists, John Dewey, William James, and Richard Rorty. If the three variables are mutually complicit in promoting inequality, an egalitarianism that takes...

..., Richard Rorty, and Gilles Deleuze. In fact, the attributes of the postmodern condition along with the concepts associated with it are identical to or supportive of the philosophical values stressed by the anti-foundational agenda. Harvey D postmodernism Deleuze G Derrida J foundationalism...

...This chapter presents the author's thoughts on Richard Rorty and his philosophy. He also considers the life story of Lillian, a “soothsayer” (sastra karaya) able to work with demonic forces in ways that enable her to dispense medical and spiritual advice to clients. The story...

...Scientifically-inspired pragmatism is best contrasted with the postmodernist-inspired pragmatism of Richard Rorty. It harkens back to the founders of pragmatism, the first generation of scholars who could experience the theory of evolution as part of their intellectual inheritance. Jamesian...

... in American philosophy (in the work of Richard Rorty, Martha Nussbaum, and Judith Butler), where it is variously defined as a failure of noticing, sympathy, love, or identification. The chapter traces the implications of the fact that diametrically opposed perspectives—the defense of torture and the critique...

... about Derrida’s work, namely, that it does not engage in argumentation. The first half of the chapter focuses on Richard Rorty’s version of that claim. Unlike other formulations of this argument, Rorty’s charge is not deployed to justify a certain non-engagement with Derrida’s work; rather, it emerges...

... Mitterand François ethics Iranian revolution subjectivity intolerable the Louis Althusser Roland Barthes Albert Camus Michel Foucault Martin Heidegger Marxism Maurice Merleau-Ponty Richard Rorty Jean-Paul Sartre My point is not that everything is bad but that everything is dangerous...

... Friedrich Nietzsche John Rawls Richard Rorty One of the central themes of all that has gone before might be summarized as ‘realism lost’, and along with it a reliable sense of past history. Indeed, Frederic Jameson points to a defining sense of the postmodern as ‘the disappearance of a sense of history...

...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...

...This chapter focuses on three contemporary philosophers who have contributed significantly to the development of pragmatism and American philosophy: Richard Rorty, Cornel West, and Robert Corrington. It argues that Rorty avoids the fundamental issue of personal transformation, which his own...

... Honneth, and Richard Rorty. misrecognition reconciliation social harm social justice political reform Richard Rorty Axel Honneth Nancy Fraser Siep L free agent freedom recognition Fraser N Honneth A misrecognition social disqualification social harm misrecognition as Pippin R...

... the polarity of relative and universal, including Richard Rorty, Chris Brown and Andrew Linklater. Finally, it examines the ‘Asian Way’ debate regarding human rights in the international domain. colonialism ethics promotion of rights relativism rights state universalism universalism–relativism debate...

...This chapter explores the origins of pragmatism between 1898 and 1916. Intellects like Herbert Schneider, Joseph Blau, and others, kept the pragmatic tradition alive, but it became highly visible when Richard Rorty confronted that tradition with its own limitations. The neopragmatic movement...