...Nicholas Gaskill Abstract As the leading contribution to the Common Knowledge symposium “Whatever Happened to Richard Rorty?,” this essay asks why Rorty was so often taken to be saying things that he claimed he was not. The argument is that Rorty's rhetorical approach and jargon engendered...

...Jan Golinski Abstract This contribution to the Common Knowledge symposium “Whatever Happened to Richard Rorty?” endorses Nicholas Gaskill's analysis of Rorty's limited legacy in the field of science and technology studies. It shows how, rather than engaging with scientific practice in a substantial...

...Anders Blok; Casper Bruun Jensen Abstract This contribution to the second installment of the Common Knowledge symposium “Whatever Happened to Richard Rorty?” argues that the field of science studies should be understood as a way of inheriting, rather than fundamentally breaking with, Rorty's...

...Jeffrey M. Perl Abstract In this brief introduction to part 2 of the Common Knowledge symposium “Whatever Happened to Richard Rorty?” the journal’s editor asks why Rorty was dependent on Thomas Kuhn, rather than Paul Feyerabend or the then-rising stars of “science studies” (such as Bruno Latour...

...Santiago Zabala Piercey Robert , The Uses of the Past from Heidegger to Rorty: Doing Philosophy Historically ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2009 ), 221 pp. © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 LITTLE...

...Barry Allen; Richard Rorty; Nicholas Gaskill; Chris Voparil; Barbara Herrnstein Smith Abstract This essay introduces a running symposium on the work of Richard Rorty and its legacy fifteen years after his passing. The arc of Rorty's thought defines a trajectory through American pragmatism, tracing...

...Barbara Herrnstein Smith Abstract Richard Rorty's rejection of prevailing interior‐mirror understandings of the presumed relationship between “minds” and “nature,” along with his promotion of nonrepresentational accounts of knowledge, truth, and science, participates in a rich tradition of jointly...

...Chris Voparil Abstract In a symposium built around a critical reassessment by Nicholas Gaskill of Richard Rorty's pragmatism, this contribution examines the provocative question of whether Rorty's rhetoric hinders Rortian aims. When reconsidering him in company with “the philosophical wing...

...Steve Fuller Abstract Richard Rorty is easily cast as the intellectual godfather of our post-truth condition. But unlike Nicholas Gaskill, whose article in Common Knowledge 28, no. 3, has engendered a continuing symposium in the journal, Professor Fuller sees Rorty's role as being to his credit...

...Alasdair MacIntyre © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 COLUMNS RICHARD RORTY (1931 – 2007) Alasdair MacIntyre Few, if any, other recent American philosophers’ books have been translated as often as Richard...

...János Boros © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 COLUMNS RORTY AND AMERICA, OVERSEAS János Boros Descartes c’est la France, as André Glucksmann has it, to which might be added: Rorty c’est les États-Unis.1...

...Hanne Andrea Kraugerud; Bjørn Torgrim Ramberg Is Richard Rorty a philosophical quietist? We consider different stances Rorty has assumed toward philosophy, arguing that on the face of it there is no conflict between them. However, Rorty's extensive writing on the topic of truth suggests a tension...

...Stephen Mulhall Rorty Richard , Philosophy as Poetry ( Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press , 2016 ), 96 pp. Copyright © 2017 Duke University Press 2017...

... call mainly dealt with political and ethical matters. In this introduction he replies chiefly to pieces by the philosophers Richard Rorty and Paul Feyerabend dealing with poverty, famine, sickness, and environmental concerns, but Kermode also addresses and mostly agrees with arguments made in Common...

...Richard Rorty Hauke Brunkhorst, Solidarity: From Civic Friendship to a Global Legal Community , trans. Jeffrey Flynn (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2005), 253 pp. © 2006 by Duke University Press 2006 L I T T L E R E V I E W S...

...Richard Rorty Duke University Press 2004 LITTLE REVIEWS Hilary Putnam, The Collapse of the Fact-Value Distinction and Other Essays (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002), 224 pp. Putnam is at his best when...

...Richard Rorty Susan Neiman, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2002), 358 pp. Duke University Press 2003 CK 9.2-12 Little Reviews 3/14/03 10:51 AM Page 341 LITTLE REVIEWS...

...Richard Rorty Abstract Among Rorty's most admired essays, and probably his most autobiographical, “Trotsky and the Wild Orchids” made its first appearance as a column in Common Knowledge during the journal's inaugural year. Here it is reprinted, thirty years later, in a symposium called “Whatever...

...Richard Rorty; Jeffrey M. Perl In this essay Rorty argues that care or concern alone is inadequate for dealing with problems of Third World poverty; neither is there likely to be a convenient technological fix. There is no evading the hard decisions that global poverty will require of the rich...

...Richard Rorty; Jeffrey M. Perl Copyright © 2019 Duke University Press 2019 Putnam Hilary , The Collapse of the Fact-Value Distinction and Other Essays ( Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 2002 ), 224 pp. ...