Rorty and His Critics

Robert Brandom (Edited by), RB Brandom (Author)

9780631209829, Wiley

Paperback / softback, published 29 July 2000

432 pages
24.6 x 17.3 x 3.2 cm, 0.771 kg

"More famously than any philosopher writing within the Anglo-American dispensation since William James and John Dewey, Richard Rorty has transported his inherited intellectual preoccupations from, in Kant's distinction, school philosophy to world philosophy. To assess this progress, the present volume brings together a formidable selection of the most interesting and influential philosophers now at issue in the analytical sphere of philosophy, to each of whom Rorty responds resourcefully and forcefully. The result is that remarkable thing, a book that does superbly everything it promises." Stanley Cavell, Harvard University

Essays, written by thirteen of the most distinguished living philosophers, together with Rorty's substantial replies to each, and other new material by him, offer by far the most thorough and thoughtful discussion of the work of the thinker who has been called "the most interesting philosopher alive."

Notes on Contributors.

Introduction.

Subject Areas: Philosophy [HP]