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<p><p>Undeniably iconoclastic, and doggedly practical where others were abstract, the late Richard Rorty was described by some as a philosopher with no philosophy. Rorty was skeptical of systems claiming to have answers, seeing scientific and aesthetic schools as vocabularies rather than as indispensable paths to truth. But his work displays a profound awareness of philosophical tradition and an urgent concern for how we create a society. As Michael Bérubé writes in his introduction to this new volume, Rorty looked upon philosophy as "a creative enterprise of dreaming up new and more humane ways to live."</p> <p> Drawn from Rorty’s acclaimed 2004 Page-Barbour lectures, <i>Philosophy as Poetry</i> distills many of the central ideas in his work. Rorty begins by addressing poetry and philosophy, which are often seen as contradictory pursuits. He offers a view of philosophy as a poem, beginning with the ancient Greeks and rewritten by succeeding generations of philosophers seeking to improve it. He goes on to examine analytic philosophy and the rejection by some philosophers, notably Wittgenstein, of the notion of philosophical problems that have solutions. The book concludes with an i

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Author

Richard Rorty, Mary Varney Rorty, Michael Bérubé

Publisher

Lightning

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9780813939339

Category

philosophy

Subjects

Fiction, Philosophy, Humanities