Undeniably iconoclastic, and doggedly practical where others were abstract, the late Richard Rorty was described by some as a philosopher with no philosophy.
Page-Barbour Lectures.
This book makes an ideal starting place for anyone looking for an introduction to Rorty\'s thought and his contribution to our sense of an American pragmatism, as well as an understanding of his influence and the controversy that attended his work.
The book concludes with an invigorating suspension of intellectual borders as Rorty focuses on the romantic tradition and relates it to philosophic thought.
He goes on to examine analytic Philosophy and the rejection by some philosophers, notably Wittgenstein, of the notion of philosophical problems that have solutions.
He offers a view of Philosophy as a poem, beginning with the ancient Greeks and rewritten by succeeding generations of philosophers seeking to improve it.
Rorty begins by addressing Poetry and philosophy, which are often seen as contradictory pursuits.
Drawn from Rorty\'s acclaimed 2004 Page-Barbour lectures, Philosophy as Poetry distills many of the central ideas in his work.
As Michael B rub writes in his introduction to this new volume, Rorty looked upon Philosophy as a creative enterprise of dreaming up new and more humane ways to live.
But his work displays a profound awareness of philosophical tradition and an urgent concern for how we create a society.
Rorty was skeptical of systems claiming to have answers, seeing scientific and aesthetic schools as vocabularies rather than as indispensable paths to truth.
Undeniably iconoclastic, and doggedly practical where others were abstract, the late Richard Rorty was described by some as a philosopher with no philosophy
