Richard Rorty and the Problem of Postmodern Experience: A Reconstruction (American Philosophy Series) 1498589235, 9781498589239

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Richard Rorty, perhaps the most important philosopher of the past century, refused to write meaningfully about experienc

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Believing that humanity would be better off if it simply dropped its traditional religious and metaphysical beliefs, Ric

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At the time of his death in 2007, Richard Rorty was widely acclaimed as one of the world’s most influential contemporary

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Kant declared that philosophy began in 1781 with his Critique of Pure Reason. In 1806 Hegel announced that philosophy ha

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