The Uses of the Past from Heidegger to Rorty - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Uses of the Past from Heidegger to Rorty write by Robert Piercey. This book was released on 2009-03-05. The Uses of the Past from Heidegger to Rorty available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book asks how it is possible to do philosophy by studying the thinkers of the past. The answer is developed through readings of Martin Heidegger, Richard Rorty, Paul Ricoeur, Alasdair MacIntyre and other historically-minded philosophers. The result is a powerful and original account of how philosophers use the past.
On Philosophy and Philosophers
On Philosophy and Philosophers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook On Philosophy and Philosophers write by Richard Rorty. This book was released on 2020-10-15. On Philosophy and Philosophers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Philosophers suffer from a peculiar occupational hazard; people are always coming up and asking them just what it is that they do and how they do it. This is not the sort of question that biologists or economists or musicians get asked; people know, pretty well, what they do, and they may or may not be interested in the details. But a philosopher is different - it is very hard to imagine just what he does with his time"--
Heidegger, Rorty, and the Eastern Thinkers
Heidegger, Rorty, and the Eastern Thinkers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Heidegger, Rorty, and the Eastern Thinkers write by Wei Zhang. This book was released on 2012-02-01. Heidegger, Rorty, and the Eastern Thinkers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Wei Zhang joins the ongoing hermeneutic quest for understanding and appropriating the East-West encounter and cross-cultural engagement by exploring Martin Heidegger's and Richard Rorty's cross-cultural encounters with Eastern thinkers. Zhang begins by examining Rorty's correspondence with Indian philosopher Anindita N. Balslev, outlining their debate about the discipline of comparative philosophy and curriculum reform, as well as the nature or origin of philosophy itself. She then focuses on the dialogue between Heidegger and a Japanese professor concerning the nature of human language and discusses whether Heidegger's view of language allows for a true understanding between East and West or whether it admits only misunderstanding and prejudice are possible. Finally, the author presents a conceptual dialogue with Heidegger's primary text on hermeneutics and phenomenology, Ontology—The Hermeneutics of Facticity. Utilizing the dialogues and correspondence between Heidegger, Rorty, and the Eastern thinkers as textual examples, Zhang deconstructs and recovers layers of misconceptions of the various interpretations of the East-West encounter.
Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity
Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity write by Richard Rorty. This book was released on 1989-02-24. Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this 1989 book Rorty argues that thinkers such as Nietzsche, Freud, and Wittgenstein have enabled societies to see themselves as historical contingencies, rather than as expressions of underlying, ahistorical human nature or as realizations of suprahistorical goals. This ironic perspective on the human condition is valuable on a private level, although it cannot advance the social or political goals of liberalism. In fact Rorty believes that it is literature not philosophy that can do this, by promoting a genuine sense of human solidarity. A truly liberal culture, acutely aware of its own historical contingency, would fuse the private, individual freedom of the ironic, philosophical perspective with the public project of human solidarity as it is engendered through the insights and sensibilities of great writers. The book has a characteristically wide range of reference from philosophy through social theory to literary criticism. It confirms Rorty's status as a uniquely subtle theorist, whose writing will prove absorbing to academic and nonacademic readers alike.
Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature
Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature write by Richard Rorty. This book was released on 1980. Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
