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The Intellectual Crisis in the Life of Richard Rorty: The Shift from a Philosophy of Experience to a Philosophy of Language

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Pages:156
ISBN:1-4955-0665-7
978-1-4955-0665-9
Price:$139.95
Dr. Timm unites two of the most engaging debates that are currently popular amongst Rorty scholars: what to make of the concept of experience after Rorty's linguistic turn and Rorty's awkward and contentious division between the public and private domains of life.

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“The commonly promoted narrative of Rorty’s career sees a strong move against analytic philosophy accompanied by a simultaneous attending to the linguistic aspects of pragmaticism. I show how this narrative can be re-imagined in a way that illuminates Rorty’s early rejection of ‘experience’ and the subsequent articulation of ideas that put ‘experience’ on the ‘backburner’.”

Table of Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1: Rorty's Turn Against Experience

Chapter 2: A Relevant History of Experience

Chapter 3: Rorty's Antifoundationalism

Chapter 4: Rorty's Public/Private Divide

Chapter 5: Rorty and the Linguistic Turn

Conclusion

Bibliography