{"product_id":"philosophy-and-social-hope-isbn-9780140262889","title":"Philosophy and Social Hope","description":"Richard Rorty is one of the most provocative figures in recent philosophical, literary and cultural debate. This collection brings together those of his writings aimed at a wider audience, many published in book form for the first time. In these eloquent essays, articles and lectures, Rorty gives a stimulating summary of his central philosophical beliefs and how they relate to his political hopes; he also offers some challenging insights into contemporary America, justice, education and love.Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Relativism: Finding and Making\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eI. Autobiographical\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. Trotsy and the Wild Orchids\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eII. Hope in Place of Knowledge: A Version of Pragmatism\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2. Truth without Correspondence to Reality\u003cbr\u003e3. A World without Substances or Essences\u003cbr\u003e4. Ethics without Principles\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eIII. Some Applications of Pragmatism\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e5. The Banality of Pragmatism and the Poetry of Justice\u003cbr\u003e6. Pragmatism and Law: A Response to David Luban\u003cbr\u003e7. Education as Socialization and as Individuation\u003cbr\u003e8. The Humanistic Intellectual: Eleven Theses\u003cbr\u003e9. The Pragmatist's Progress: Umberto Eco on Interpretation\u003cbr\u003e10. Religious Fatih, Intellectual Responsibility and Romance\u003cbr\u003e11. Religion as Conversation-stopper\u003cbr\u003e12. Thomas Kuhn, Rocks, and the Laws of Physics\u003cbr\u003e13. On Heidegger's Nazism\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eIV. Politics\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e14. Failed Prophecies, Glorious Hopes\u003cbr\u003e15. A Spectre is Haunting the Intellectuals: Derrida on Marx\u003cbr\u003e16. Love and Money\u003cbr\u003e17. Globalization, the Politics of Identity and Social Hope\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eV. Contemporary America\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e18. Looking Backwards from the Year 2096\u003cbr\u003e19. The Unpatriotic Academy\u003cbr\u003e20. Back to Class Politics\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfterword: Pragmatism, Pluralism and Postmodernism\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRichard Rorty is Professor of Comparative Literature at Stanford University. He is the author of PHILSOPHY AND THE MIRROR OF NATURE, CONTINGENCY, IRONY AND SOLIDARITY, and ACHIEVING OUR COUNTRY.","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48233473376485,"sku":"NP9780140262889","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780140262889.jpg?v=1767734721","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/philosophy-and-social-hope-isbn-9780140262889","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}