Author: Pedro Góis Moreira
Publisher: Vernon Press
ISBN: 1622739205
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
Richard Rorty is considered one of the most original philosophers of the last decades, and he has generated warm enthusiasm on the part of many intellectuals and students, within and outside the field of philosophy. The collection opens with an essay by Robert Brandom, in which he continues the discussion of Rorty’s “vocabulary vocabulary” that he began in Rorty and his Critics, and ends with an interview in which Brandom talks about Rorty himself as a teacher and friend. The collection is then divided into three further sections, each addressing an aspect of Rorty’s thought. First, a political section contains several essays discussing Rorty’s notorious “prophecy” in Achieving our Country and the idea that he would have foreseen the rise of a political “strongman.” Also discussed are Rorty's view of the cultural left, his view of the relation between truth and democracy, and Rorty on the concept of fraternity. In a second, epistemological section, several essays address Rorty’s historicism, anti-representationalism, and his views on truth and on religion, often through the lenses of his critics (Putnam, Habermas, Dews). A final section addresses the relations between Rorty and other philosophers such as Hume, Heidegger, and Ortega y Gasset. This works contains valuable essays in three languages — English, Portuguese, and Spanish — and is a small example of the reach of Rorty’s thought and its expansion beyond the Anglo-Saxon world in only ten years after his death. It will appeal to Rorty’s scholars and researchers as well as any student of pragmatism and anti-foundationalist thought.
Revisiting Richard Rorty
Author: Pedro Góis Moreira
Publisher: Vernon Press
ISBN: 1622739205
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
Richard Rorty is considered one of the most original philosophers of the last decades, and he has generated warm enthusiasm on the part of many intellectuals and students, within and outside the field of philosophy. The collection opens with an essay by Robert Brandom, in which he continues the discussion of Rorty’s “vocabulary vocabulary” that he began in Rorty and his Critics, and ends with an interview in which Brandom talks about Rorty himself as a teacher and friend. The collection is then divided into three further sections, each addressing an aspect of Rorty’s thought. First, a political section contains several essays discussing Rorty’s notorious “prophecy” in Achieving our Country and the idea that he would have foreseen the rise of a political “strongman.” Also discussed are Rorty's view of the cultural left, his view of the relation between truth and democracy, and Rorty on the concept of fraternity. In a second, epistemological section, several essays address Rorty’s historicism, anti-representationalism, and his views on truth and on religion, often through the lenses of his critics (Putnam, Habermas, Dews). A final section addresses the relations between Rorty and other philosophers such as Hume, Heidegger, and Ortega y Gasset. This works contains valuable essays in three languages — English, Portuguese, and Spanish — and is a small example of the reach of Rorty’s thought and its expansion beyond the Anglo-Saxon world in only ten years after his death. It will appeal to Rorty’s scholars and researchers as well as any student of pragmatism and anti-foundationalist thought.
Publisher: Vernon Press
ISBN: 1622739205
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
Richard Rorty is considered one of the most original philosophers of the last decades, and he has generated warm enthusiasm on the part of many intellectuals and students, within and outside the field of philosophy. The collection opens with an essay by Robert Brandom, in which he continues the discussion of Rorty’s “vocabulary vocabulary” that he began in Rorty and his Critics, and ends with an interview in which Brandom talks about Rorty himself as a teacher and friend. The collection is then divided into three further sections, each addressing an aspect of Rorty’s thought. First, a political section contains several essays discussing Rorty’s notorious “prophecy” in Achieving our Country and the idea that he would have foreseen the rise of a political “strongman.” Also discussed are Rorty's view of the cultural left, his view of the relation between truth and democracy, and Rorty on the concept of fraternity. In a second, epistemological section, several essays address Rorty’s historicism, anti-representationalism, and his views on truth and on religion, often through the lenses of his critics (Putnam, Habermas, Dews). A final section addresses the relations between Rorty and other philosophers such as Hume, Heidegger, and Ortega y Gasset. This works contains valuable essays in three languages — English, Portuguese, and Spanish — and is a small example of the reach of Rorty’s thought and its expansion beyond the Anglo-Saxon world in only ten years after his death. It will appeal to Rorty’s scholars and researchers as well as any student of pragmatism and anti-foundationalist thought.
The Ethics of Richard Rorty
Author: Susan Dieleman
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000586413
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
This book contains diverse and critical reflections on Richard Rorty’s contributions to ethics, an aspect of his thought that has been relatively neglected. Together, they demonstrate that Rorty offers a compelling and coherent ethical vision. The book's chapters, grouped thematically, explore Rorty’s emphasis on the importance of moral imagination, social relations, language, and literature as instrumental for ethical self-transformation, as well as for strengthening what Rorty called "social hope," which entails constant work toward a more democratic, inclusive, and cosmopolitan society and world. Several contributors address the ethical implications of Rorty’s commitment to a vision of political liberalism without philosophical foundations. Others offer critical examinations of Rorty’s claim that our private or individual projects of self-creation can or should be held apart from our public goals of ameliorating social conditions and reducing cruelty and suffering. Some contributors explore hurdles that impede the practical applications of certain of Rorty's ideas. The Ethics of Richard Rorty will appeal to scholars and advanced students interested in American philosophy and ethics.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000586413
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
This book contains diverse and critical reflections on Richard Rorty’s contributions to ethics, an aspect of his thought that has been relatively neglected. Together, they demonstrate that Rorty offers a compelling and coherent ethical vision. The book's chapters, grouped thematically, explore Rorty’s emphasis on the importance of moral imagination, social relations, language, and literature as instrumental for ethical self-transformation, as well as for strengthening what Rorty called "social hope," which entails constant work toward a more democratic, inclusive, and cosmopolitan society and world. Several contributors address the ethical implications of Rorty’s commitment to a vision of political liberalism without philosophical foundations. Others offer critical examinations of Rorty’s claim that our private or individual projects of self-creation can or should be held apart from our public goals of ameliorating social conditions and reducing cruelty and suffering. Some contributors explore hurdles that impede the practical applications of certain of Rorty's ideas. The Ethics of Richard Rorty will appeal to scholars and advanced students interested in American philosophy and ethics.
Contingency and Normativity: The Challenges of Richard Rorty
Author: Rosa Maria Calcaterra
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004393838
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
Richard Rorty’s “neo-pragmatism” launched a powerful challenge to entrenched philosophical certainties of modernity, articulating a powerful picture of normativity as a distinctive activity of human beings. This “contingentism,” with its emphasis on indeterminacy, ambiguity, uncertainty, and chance, depicts normativity as a practical human possibility rather than a metaphysical bottleneck which we must overcome at the cost of repudiating the concrete ways we grant epistemic and ethical meaning to our activities. The book is a critical survey of Rorty’s philosophy, in light of contemporary theoretical debates around language, truth, justification, and naturalism, as well as his own resourceful attempts to renew philosophy from within by using the conceptual tools and argumentative techniques of both analytic philosophy and pragmatism.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004393838
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
Richard Rorty’s “neo-pragmatism” launched a powerful challenge to entrenched philosophical certainties of modernity, articulating a powerful picture of normativity as a distinctive activity of human beings. This “contingentism,” with its emphasis on indeterminacy, ambiguity, uncertainty, and chance, depicts normativity as a practical human possibility rather than a metaphysical bottleneck which we must overcome at the cost of repudiating the concrete ways we grant epistemic and ethical meaning to our activities. The book is a critical survey of Rorty’s philosophy, in light of contemporary theoretical debates around language, truth, justification, and naturalism, as well as his own resourceful attempts to renew philosophy from within by using the conceptual tools and argumentative techniques of both analytic philosophy and pragmatism.
El Giro Lingüístico
Author: Richard Rorty
Publisher: Grupo Planeta (GBS)
ISBN: 9788475096131
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : es
Pages : 170
Book Description
Los tres textos de Rorty que recoge este volumen (para el que expresamente fue escrito fue escrito el último: estamos ante una primicia) constituyen no sólo un frente desconstructivo de la filosofía lingüística anglonorteamericana (Acaso la versión más y mejor propagada del "giro lingüístico" que experimenta la filosofía en este siglo), sino también la materia genética de la desconstrucción de la epistemología moderna, último intento de la filosofía sistemática, de filiación platónica-kantiana, de constituirse en Alto Tribunal de la Realidad que emite el veredicto sobre lo que es y no es un buen confort metafísico. Rorty, al desconstruir las pretensiones de la filosofía del lenguaje de estar fundada y ser fundamentadora (de ser la nueva filosofía primera), se suma a la nómina de héroes desconstructivos de las falsas certezas y de las pseudoseguridades modernas. Y ante la frustración colectiva, histórica, que nos va quedando como herencia de la falsa deidad moderna (el confort racional en su trinidad metafísico-epistémico-moral), tiene el valor de erradicar hasta sus puntas las raíces de la fe moderna en el fundamento (racional) y lo (racionalmente) fundado; y de llamar nuestra atención sobre la condición incierta, contingente y finita, desfundada y desfondada, de una experiencia que, a trancas y barrancas, va conservando el nombre de posmoderna. La introducción ha corrido a cargo de Gabriel Bello, catedrático de Ética en la Universidad de La Laguna.
Publisher: Grupo Planeta (GBS)
ISBN: 9788475096131
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : es
Pages : 170
Book Description
Los tres textos de Rorty que recoge este volumen (para el que expresamente fue escrito fue escrito el último: estamos ante una primicia) constituyen no sólo un frente desconstructivo de la filosofía lingüística anglonorteamericana (Acaso la versión más y mejor propagada del "giro lingüístico" que experimenta la filosofía en este siglo), sino también la materia genética de la desconstrucción de la epistemología moderna, último intento de la filosofía sistemática, de filiación platónica-kantiana, de constituirse en Alto Tribunal de la Realidad que emite el veredicto sobre lo que es y no es un buen confort metafísico. Rorty, al desconstruir las pretensiones de la filosofía del lenguaje de estar fundada y ser fundamentadora (de ser la nueva filosofía primera), se suma a la nómina de héroes desconstructivos de las falsas certezas y de las pseudoseguridades modernas. Y ante la frustración colectiva, histórica, que nos va quedando como herencia de la falsa deidad moderna (el confort racional en su trinidad metafísico-epistémico-moral), tiene el valor de erradicar hasta sus puntas las raíces de la fe moderna en el fundamento (racional) y lo (racionalmente) fundado; y de llamar nuestra atención sobre la condición incierta, contingente y finita, desfundada y desfondada, de una experiencia que, a trancas y barrancas, va conservando el nombre de posmoderna. La introducción ha corrido a cargo de Gabriel Bello, catedrático de Ética en la Universidad de La Laguna.
El pragmatismo, una versión
Author: Richard Rorty
Publisher: Grupo Planeta (GBS)
ISBN: 9788434487574
Category : Philosophy
Languages : es
Pages : 306
Book Description
No es solo un libro para universitarios sino asequible e interesante para toda persona inmersa en los grandes temas actuales.
Publisher: Grupo Planeta (GBS)
ISBN: 9788434487574
Category : Philosophy
Languages : es
Pages : 306
Book Description
No es solo un libro para universitarios sino asequible e interesante para toda persona inmersa en los grandes temas actuales.
Richard Rorty
Author: José Olimpo Suárez Molano
Publisher: Universidad de Antioquia
ISBN: 9789586558426
Category : Philosophers
Languages : es
Pages : 396
Book Description
Publisher: Universidad de Antioquia
ISBN: 9789586558426
Category : Philosophers
Languages : es
Pages : 396
Book Description
Confines of Democracy
Author: Ramón del Castillo
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004301208
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
The topics addressed by Richard J. Bernstein in his extensive and illuminating work span the stream of contemporary thought in several directions: ethics, politics, epistemology, philosophy of history, and social theory. In reflecting on them Bernstein has played an intermediary role between the most recognizable product of American philosophical tradition, i.e. Pragmatism, and such central trends in European 20th century thought as Marxism, Psychoanalysis, Critical Theory, and Hermeneutics. In this volume a host of prominent scholars from the United States, Europe, and Latin America pays tribute to Bernstein’s lifelong reflection on such present human problems as: the achievements and the dilemmas of modern societies, the legitimation crisis of democracy, the uses and abuses of public space, the role of scientific knowledge and technology in shaping the modern life, the ethical and political interplay between identity and community, and the preconditions and limits of understanding in multicultural contexts. The fifteen essays in this book, accompanied by separate replies by Bernstein, are organized in four sections: “Bernstein, Rorty and American Pragmatism,” “Epistemology and Hermeneutics,” “Good, Evil and Judgment,” and “Democratic Vistas.” As Prof. Bernstein declares in his Preface, these “contributions are expressions of my own commitment to engaged fallibilistic pluralism.”
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004301208
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
The topics addressed by Richard J. Bernstein in his extensive and illuminating work span the stream of contemporary thought in several directions: ethics, politics, epistemology, philosophy of history, and social theory. In reflecting on them Bernstein has played an intermediary role between the most recognizable product of American philosophical tradition, i.e. Pragmatism, and such central trends in European 20th century thought as Marxism, Psychoanalysis, Critical Theory, and Hermeneutics. In this volume a host of prominent scholars from the United States, Europe, and Latin America pays tribute to Bernstein’s lifelong reflection on such present human problems as: the achievements and the dilemmas of modern societies, the legitimation crisis of democracy, the uses and abuses of public space, the role of scientific knowledge and technology in shaping the modern life, the ethical and political interplay between identity and community, and the preconditions and limits of understanding in multicultural contexts. The fifteen essays in this book, accompanied by separate replies by Bernstein, are organized in four sections: “Bernstein, Rorty and American Pragmatism,” “Epistemology and Hermeneutics,” “Good, Evil and Judgment,” and “Democratic Vistas.” As Prof. Bernstein declares in his Preface, these “contributions are expressions of my own commitment to engaged fallibilistic pluralism.”
Filosofía y futuro
Author: Richard Rorty
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788497845984
Category : Philosophy
Languages : es
Pages : 208
Book Description
Formado en la tradición de la filosofía analítica angloamericana y profundamente familiarizado con la filosofía centroeuropea, Rorty integra ambas corrientes de pensamiento en sus exploraciones del territorio filosófico, al que entiende como espacio de «narraciones» que proponen siempre nuevas descripciones del mundo a modo de mapas de orientación adecuados a la mentalidad de cada época. Sus atrevidas desmitificaciones de su propia disciplina le han convertido en uno de los filósofos más discutidos de la actualidad. Hereje para los que aún se aferran al ideal científico de la filosofía, demasiado irónico para aquellos que le reprochan un abandono precipitado de las venerables preguntas filosóficas, Rorty es en cualquier caso un imbatible guerrillero de la interpretación, que atraviesa las filas enemigas con perspicacia y habilidad, dejando a menudo tan atónitos a sus adversarios como a sus seguidores. Rorty destaca también como intelectual político. Pero no da buenos consejos desde la torre de marfil académica, sino que muestra que las aspiraciones de la filosofía a verdades privilegiadas no pueden cumplirse al margen de la controversia apasionada entre las erróneamente subvaloradas «meras» opiniones. El presente volumen reúne textos recientes de Richard Rorty que se ocupan de las tareas y responsabilidades de la filosofía y analizan las más significativas posiciones filosóficas y políticas modernas y contemporáneas. Sus «confesiones» autobiográficas, dilucidan muchos aspectos del pensamiento rebelde de este gran filósofo que se declara pragmatista impenitente después de rodeos por territorios que sorprenderán incluso a los que creen conocerlo a fondo. «El trabajo teórico de Marc Augé caracterizado siempre por la agudeza, el humor y su optimismo-pese-a-todo, ayuda a mantenerse alerta en (y contra) el doble movimiento que define a la modernidad [...]» Amador Fernández-Savater, El País
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788497845984
Category : Philosophy
Languages : es
Pages : 208
Book Description
Formado en la tradición de la filosofía analítica angloamericana y profundamente familiarizado con la filosofía centroeuropea, Rorty integra ambas corrientes de pensamiento en sus exploraciones del territorio filosófico, al que entiende como espacio de «narraciones» que proponen siempre nuevas descripciones del mundo a modo de mapas de orientación adecuados a la mentalidad de cada época. Sus atrevidas desmitificaciones de su propia disciplina le han convertido en uno de los filósofos más discutidos de la actualidad. Hereje para los que aún se aferran al ideal científico de la filosofía, demasiado irónico para aquellos que le reprochan un abandono precipitado de las venerables preguntas filosóficas, Rorty es en cualquier caso un imbatible guerrillero de la interpretación, que atraviesa las filas enemigas con perspicacia y habilidad, dejando a menudo tan atónitos a sus adversarios como a sus seguidores. Rorty destaca también como intelectual político. Pero no da buenos consejos desde la torre de marfil académica, sino que muestra que las aspiraciones de la filosofía a verdades privilegiadas no pueden cumplirse al margen de la controversia apasionada entre las erróneamente subvaloradas «meras» opiniones. El presente volumen reúne textos recientes de Richard Rorty que se ocupan de las tareas y responsabilidades de la filosofía y analizan las más significativas posiciones filosóficas y políticas modernas y contemporáneas. Sus «confesiones» autobiográficas, dilucidan muchos aspectos del pensamiento rebelde de este gran filósofo que se declara pragmatista impenitente después de rodeos por territorios que sorprenderán incluso a los que creen conocerlo a fondo. «El trabajo teórico de Marc Augé caracterizado siempre por la agudeza, el humor y su optimismo-pese-a-todo, ayuda a mantenerse alerta en (y contra) el doble movimiento que define a la modernidad [...]» Amador Fernández-Savater, El País
Verdad y progreso
Author: Richard Rorty
Publisher: Paidos Iberica Ediciones S A
ISBN: 9788449308185
Category : Philosophy
Languages : es
Pages : 400
Book Description
Este volumen es complementario de otros dos tomos, ya publicados por Paidos, correspondientes a los Escritos filosoficos de Richard Rorty: Objetividad, realismo y verdad y Ensayos sobre Heidegger y otros pensadores contemporaneos. El tema que subyace a toda la serie es el convencimiento, por parte del autor, de que no deberiamos pensar que la investigacion, ya sea en la ciencia o en cualquier otra area de la cultura, apunta hacia la verdad, sino que se limita a resolver problemas. Solo la desacreditada teoria de la verdad como correspondencia hace plausible la idea de que se trata de una meta. Una vez que se abandona tal nocion, se puede empezar a dudar tambien de que la investigacion deba dirigirse hacia un punto determinado y, en consecuencia, contemplar sus horizontes como algo en constante expansion, a medida que tropezamos con nuevos problemas. Todo ello ilustrado con analisis del trabajo de algunos de los pensadores actuales mas importantes, como por ejemplo Robert Brandom, Donald Davidson, Daniel Dennett, Jacques Derrida, Jurgen Habermas, John McDowell, Hilary Putnam, John Searle y Charles Taylor.
Publisher: Paidos Iberica Ediciones S A
ISBN: 9788449308185
Category : Philosophy
Languages : es
Pages : 400
Book Description
Este volumen es complementario de otros dos tomos, ya publicados por Paidos, correspondientes a los Escritos filosoficos de Richard Rorty: Objetividad, realismo y verdad y Ensayos sobre Heidegger y otros pensadores contemporaneos. El tema que subyace a toda la serie es el convencimiento, por parte del autor, de que no deberiamos pensar que la investigacion, ya sea en la ciencia o en cualquier otra area de la cultura, apunta hacia la verdad, sino que se limita a resolver problemas. Solo la desacreditada teoria de la verdad como correspondencia hace plausible la idea de que se trata de una meta. Una vez que se abandona tal nocion, se puede empezar a dudar tambien de que la investigacion deba dirigirse hacia un punto determinado y, en consecuencia, contemplar sus horizontes como algo en constante expansion, a medida que tropezamos con nuevos problemas. Todo ello ilustrado con analisis del trabajo de algunos de los pensadores actuales mas importantes, como por ejemplo Robert Brandom, Donald Davidson, Daniel Dennett, Jacques Derrida, Jurgen Habermas, John McDowell, Hilary Putnam, John Searle y Charles Taylor.
Without Criteria
Author: Steven Shaviro
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262517973
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
A Deleuzian reading of Whitehead and a Whiteheadian reading of Deleuze open the possibility of a critical aesthetics of contemporary culture. In Without Criteria, Steven Shaviro proposes and explores a philosophical fantasy: imagine a world in which Alfred North Whitehead takes the place of Martin Heidegger. What if Whitehead, instead of Heidegger, had set the agenda for postmodern thought? Heidegger asks, “Why is there something, rather than nothing?” Whitehead asks, “How is it that there is always something new?” In a world where everything from popular music to DNA is being sampled and recombined, argues Shaviro, Whitehead's question is the truly urgent one. Without Criteria is Shaviro's experiment in rethinking postmodern theory, especially the theory of aesthetics, from a point of view that hearkens back to Whitehead rather than Heidegger. In working through the ideas of Whitehead and Deleuze, Shaviro also appeals to Kant, arguing that certain aspects of Kant's thought pave the way for the philosophical “constructivism” embraced by both Whitehead and Deleuze. Kant, Whitehead, and Deleuze are not commonly grouped together, but the juxtaposition of them in Without Criteria helps to shed light on a variety of issues that are of concern to contemporary art and media practices.
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262517973
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
A Deleuzian reading of Whitehead and a Whiteheadian reading of Deleuze open the possibility of a critical aesthetics of contemporary culture. In Without Criteria, Steven Shaviro proposes and explores a philosophical fantasy: imagine a world in which Alfred North Whitehead takes the place of Martin Heidegger. What if Whitehead, instead of Heidegger, had set the agenda for postmodern thought? Heidegger asks, “Why is there something, rather than nothing?” Whitehead asks, “How is it that there is always something new?” In a world where everything from popular music to DNA is being sampled and recombined, argues Shaviro, Whitehead's question is the truly urgent one. Without Criteria is Shaviro's experiment in rethinking postmodern theory, especially the theory of aesthetics, from a point of view that hearkens back to Whitehead rather than Heidegger. In working through the ideas of Whitehead and Deleuze, Shaviro also appeals to Kant, arguing that certain aspects of Kant's thought pave the way for the philosophical “constructivism” embraced by both Whitehead and Deleuze. Kant, Whitehead, and Deleuze are not commonly grouped together, but the juxtaposition of them in Without Criteria helps to shed light on a variety of issues that are of concern to contemporary art and media practices.