Essays on Heidegger and Others: Philosophical Papers: Volume 2 (Richard Rorty: Philosophical Papers Set 4 Paperbacks)
Cambridge University Press, 4/25/1991
EAN 9780521358781, ISBN10: 0521358787
Paperback, 216 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.2 cm
Language: English
Richard Rorty's collected papers, written during the 1980s and now published in two volumes, take up some of the issues which divide Anglo-Saxon analytic philosophers and contemporary French and German philosophers and offer something of a compromise - agreeing with the latter in their criticisms of traditional notions of truth and objectivity, but disagreeing with them over the political implications they draw from dropping traditional philosophical doctrines. The second volume pursues the themes of the first volume in the context of discussions of recent European philosophy focusing on the work of Heidegger and Derrida.
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Pragmatism and post-Nietzschean philosophy
Part I. Philosophy as Science, as Metaphor, and as Politics
Heidegger, contingency, and pragmatism
Wittgenstein, Heidegger, and the reification of language
Heidegger, Kundera, and Dickens
Part II. Deconstruction and Circumvention
Two meanings of 'logocentrism'
a reply to Norris Is Derrida a transcendental philosophy?
De Man and the American Cultural Left
Part III. Freud and Moral Reflection Habermas and Lyotard on postmodernity
Unger, Castoriadis, and the romance of a national future
Moral identity and private autonomy
the case of Foucault
Index of names.