Richard Rorty Education, Philosophy, and Politics,9780742509054

Richard Rorty Education, Philosophy, and Politics

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ISBN13: 9780742509054
ISBN10: 0742509052
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2001-12-20
Publisher(s): Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Summary

This distinctive collection by scholars from around the world focuses upon the cultural, educational, and political significance of Richard Rorty's thought. The nine essays which comprise the collection examine a variety of related themes: Rorty's neopragmatism, his view of philosophy, his philosophy of education and culture, Rorty's comparison between Dewey and Foucault, his relation to postmodern theory, and, also his form of political liberalism.

Table of Contents

Introduction Rorty's Neopragmatism: Nietzsche, Culture, and Education 1(14)
Michael A. Peters
Paulo Ghiraldelli Jr.
Rorty and the Instruments of Philosophy
15(32)
Bjorn Ramberg
Rorty, Metaphysics, and the Education of Human Potential
47(20)
Jim Garrison
Truth, Trust, and Metaphor: Rorty's Davidsonian Philosophy of Education
67(12)
Paulo Chiraldelli Jr.
On What We May Hope: Rorty on Dewey and Foucault
79(22)
James D. Marshall
Richard Rorty and Postmodern Theory
101(10)
Steven Best
Douglas Kellner
The Political Liberalism of Richard Rorty
111(28)
Alberto Tosi Rodrigues
Richard Rorty's Self-Help Liberalism: A Marxist Critique of America's Most Wanted Ironist
139(24)
Peter McLaren
Ramin Farahmandur
Juha Suoranta
Richard Rorty and the End of Philosophy of Education
163(16)
Kenneth Wain
Achieving America: Postmodernism and Rorty's Critique of the Cultural Left
179(18)
Michael A. Peters
Index 197(10)
About the Contributors 207

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