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Achieving Our Country

Leftist Thought in Twentieth-Century America

Achieving Our Country( )
Author: Rorty, Richard McKay
Series title:The William E. Massey Sr. Lectures in the History of American Civilization Ser.
ISBN:978-0-674-00311-8
Publication Date:Apr 1998
Publisher:Harvard University Press
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $28.50
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Book Details
Pages:176
Detailed Subjects: Political Science / Political Ideologies / Radicalism
Political Science / Political Ideologies / Conservatism & Liberalism
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):5.5 x 8.25 x 0.7 Inches
Book Weight:0.78 Pounds
Author Biography
Rorty, Richard McKay (Author)
Richard McKay Rorty is the principal American voice of postmodern philosophy. He was born in New York City and educated at the University of Chicago and Yale University. After having taught philosophy at Princeton University for more than 20 years, Rorty became a university professor in humanities at the University of Virginia in 1982. He has been awarded fellowships by the Guggenheim and MacArthur foundations. In 1967 Rorty published The Linguistic Turn, an anthology of twentieth-century philosophy that opens with his 40-page introduction. This work has become a standard introduction to analytic philosophy, and its title names an era. Despite his early hope for the future of analytic philosophy, Rorty came to doubt its foundations. This doubt prodded him to master American pragmatism as well as continental European work in hermeneutics and deconstruction. This work, in turn, led Rorty to question the entire tradition of Western philosophy. These doubts are expressed in his second book, Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature (1979), which is one of the most widely discussed of all recent American works in philosophy. It announces the death of philosophy as a kind of higher knowledge but recommends its continuance as edification and as a branch of literature. Choice proved prophetic in stating that "this bold and provocative book is bound to rank among the most important of the decade." 020



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