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Rorty seeks to tie philosophys past to its future by connecting what he sees as the positive (and neglected) contributions of the American pragmatic philosophers to contemporary European developments. What emerges from his explorations is a revivified version of pragmatism that offers new hope for the future of philosophy.Rortys dazzling tour through the history of modern philosophy, and his critical account of its present state (the best general introduction in print), is actually an argument that what we consider perennial problems--mind and body, consciousness and objects, the foundations of knowledge, the fact/value distinction--are merely the dead-ends this picture leads us into. Los Angeles Times Book ReviewIt can immediately be said that Consequences of Pragmatism must be read by both those who believe that they agree and those who believe that they disagree with Richard Rorty. [He] is far and away the most provocative philosophical writer working in North America today, and Consequences of Pragmatism should make this claim even stronger.The Review of MetaphysicsPhilosophy, for Rorty, is a form of writing, a literary genre, closer to literary criticism than anything else, a

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Author

Richard Rorty

Publisher

UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS

Published

1982

Language

EN

ISBN

9780710804082

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Philosophy, Social Science, European & American Philosophy

Rating

4.02 / 5 (182 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14