Philosophy and Social Hope
Book - 1999 191 Ro None on shelf No requests on this item
Sign in to request
| Location & Checkout Length | Call Number | Checkout Length | Item Status |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout |
191 Ro | 4-week checkout | Due 04-18-2024 |
"A Penguin original"--Cover.
Trotsky and the wild orchids -- Truth without correspondence to reality -- A world without substances or essences -- Ethics without principles -- The banality of pragmatism and the poetry of justice -- Pragmatism and law: a response to David Luban -- Education as socialization and as individualization -- The humanistic intellectual: eleven theses -- The pragmatist's progress: Umberto Eco on interpretation -- Religious faith, intellectual responsibility and romance -- Religion as conversation-stopper -- Thomas Kuhn, rocks and the laws of physics -- On Heidegger's Nazism -- Failed prophecies, glorious hopes -- A spectre is haunting the intellectuals: Derrida on Marx -- Love and money -- Globalization, the politics of identity and social hope -- Looking backwards from the year 2096 -- The unpatriotic academy -- Back to class politics.
COMMUNITY REVIEWS
No community reviews. Write one below!
PUBLISHED
New York : Penguin Books, 1999.
Year Published: 1999
Description: xxxii, 288 p. ; 20 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
0140262881 :
SUBJECTS
Rorty, Richard -- Political and social views.
Philosophy, Modern -- 20th century.
Pragmatism.