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Richard Rorty
Politics and Vision
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2006
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The first full-length work devoted to Richard Rorty from the perspective of political theory, this book offers a fresh assessment of the promise of the renowned pragmatist's project. Framing Rorty's discourse as one of meaning and persuasion rather than truth and accuracy of representation, Voparil sheds new light on many of Rorty's most misunderstood and maligned stances, including his practice of "redescription" and disavowal of "getting it right," as well as his embrace of the novel and "sentimental education." As political theory, Rorty's perspective, not unlike Sheldon Wolin's, values the imagination, the ability to come up with new metaphors and angles of vision, and is driven by a deep desire to reinvigorate a moribund and detached contemporary left.
Voparil's account engages the full range of Rorty's intellectual forebears, grounding his thought in an American tradition that extends beyond the classical pragmatists to include Emerson, Whitman, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and James Baldwin, in addition to chapters that trace Rorty's connection to such diverse figures as Marx, Mill, Dickens, Isaiah Berlin, and Milan Kundera.
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Copyright year
2006
ISBN-Print
978-0-7425-5166-4
ISBN-Online
978-1-4616-4313-5
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
201
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Acknowledgments No access
List of Abbreviations of Rorty Texts No access
Introduction: Reading Rorty No access Pages 1 - 8
1 Pragmatism and Personal Vision No access Pages 9 - 34
2 The Mirror and the Lever No access Pages 35 - 60
3 The Politics of the Novel No access Pages 61 - 88
4 The Limits of Sympathy No access Pages 89 - 112
5 Public Pragmatism and Private Narcissism No access Pages 113 - 154
6 America as the Greatest Poem No access Pages 155 - 182
Conclusion: Rorty and Thesis Eleven No access Pages 183 - 194
