Essays on Heidegger and Others
Philosophical Papers

The second volume of Richard Rorty's collected papers discusses recent European philosophy focusing on the work of Heidegger and Derrida.

Richard Rorty (Author)

9780521358781, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 22 February 1991

212 pages
22.6 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.5 kg

"Rorty's fascinating presentation of recent intellectual history is impressive in its scope and penetration." Library Journal

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.

Subject Areas: Phenomenology & Existentialism [HPCF3]