Tuesday, September 08, 2009

Essays: Remembering Richard Rorty


Special volume of New Literary History (vol. 39 no. 1) on the American philosopher Richard Rorty (1931-2007):

Remembering Richard Rorty

All contributions are available online (pdf):

Ralph Cohen - Introduction

Meredith Williams - Contingency, Solidarity - Irony

Jürgen Habermas - ". . . And to define America, her athletic democracy"


Richard J. Bernstein - Richard Rorty's Deep Humanism


Jeffrey Stout - Rorty at Princeton


E. D. Hirsch - Rorty and the Priority of Democracy to Philosophy


Richard Rorty - Texts and Lumps


Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht & Rita Felski - The Inspirational Power of a Shy Philosopher


Andrzej Szahaj - Richard Rorty: Memories


Frank Ankersmit - Rorty and History


Richard Rorty - Philosophy as a Kind of Writing


Annette Baier - Can Philosophers Be Patriots?


David Rigsbee - Rorty


David Rigsbee - Wised Up


David Rigsbee - Rorty from a Poet's View


Günter Leypoldt - Uses of Metaphor: Richard Rorty's Literary Criticism and the Poetics of World-Making


Nicholas M. Gaskill - Experience and Signs: Towards a Pragmatist Literary Criticism


A Selected List of Richard Rorty's Publications

A short film on Richard Rorty: here.

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