... contingencies of surprise encounters with ideas, texts, and other creative works. [email protected] © 2023 Virginia Tech 2023 contingency creativity Deleuze misreading Rorty Works Cited Davidson Donald . 1973 . “ Radical Interpretation .” In Inquiries into Truth...

... explicitly endorses Resnick's and Wolffs parallel between Althusser and Richard Rorty's anti- foundationalism, which seems strained since there is absolutely nothing in Rorty that would faintly resemble Althusser's unwavering theoretical commitment to his political views. For Rorty, political beliefs...

... .” Cultural Critique 57 ( 2004 ): 111 - 50 . Revolutionary Communist Party . “ RC4 tour 05 .” Promotional postcard . Los Angeles, CA , 2005 . Rorty Richard Nystrom Derek Puckett Kent . Against Bosses, Against Oligarchies: A Conversation with Richard Rorty . Chicago : Prickly...

... Rorty credit for his style and also the minnesota review his political stance. Maybe you could talk about the idea of style and the question of a public voice. Felski That's one of the things I really admire about Rorty. Some of his theoretical and political stances I agree with and some...

... intellectual group constituting a front whose argument about politics and culture in the United States has been really disabling to the Left. Arthur Who are these traitors? Lott Richard Rorty is the bland old man of the group. But the group is populated by people like Todd Gitlin, Paul Berman...

... explanations but also historical symptoms: indices of the changing fortunes of masochism in modern culture. Here Richard Rorty's notion of redescription may prove helpful. Changing beliefs, argues Rorty, should be understood not as discoveries of truth but as the adoption of new vocabularies...

... Nathan Kloesel Christian . Bloomington : Indiana UP , 1992 . Rorty Richard . Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature . Princeton : Princeton UP , 1979 . Shusterman Richard . Pragmatist Aesthetics: Living Beauty, Rethinking Art . 2nd ed. Lanham, MD : Rowman...

... and postmodernist thinkers, Lyotard's cognitive good, his theory of narrative meaning, by the 1990s was joined by Richard Rorty's Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity (1989), Paul Ricoeur's Time and Narrative (1990), and other theoretical texts—all to an extent espousing (and liberating) free-floating...

..., ed. Take Care of Freedom and Truth Will Take Care of Itself: Interviews with Richard Rorty. Stanford: Stanford UP, 2006. Norris, Andrew. Politics, Metaphysics, And Death: Essays on Giorgio Agamben's Homo Sacer. Durham: Duke UP, 2005- Parks, Lisa. Cultures In Orbit: Satellites...

... of an event; that David Wood, Jean-Luc Nancy, Michel Haar, John Llewe- lyn, Geoffrey Bennington, John Sallis, Robert Bernasconi, Christo- pher Norris, Irene Harvey, Manfred Frank, Richard Rorty, and Jacques Derrida had all gathered together in a room —​a hotel confer- ence room perhaps, or maybe...

... Economy: The Effects of School Reform in a Neoliberal / Neoconservative Age. 2nd ed. New York: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2008. Greenhouse, Steven. The Big Squeeze: Tough Times for the American Worker. New York: Knopf, 2008. Gross, Neil. Richard Rorty: The Making...

... epitaph to the political as such, McGowan joins such thinkers as John Rawls, Martha Nussbaum, and Richard Rorty in championing liberal democracy as the antidote to social stratification. He believes that liberalism is a highly misunderstood concept and that its critics suffer...

... Nation (1995), and the just plain nationalism of Richard Rorty's Achieving Our Country (1999). All of these, on Michaels' view, fall into line with the posthistoricism of Francis Fukuyama's The End of History and the Last Man (1992) and Samuel Huntington's "The Clash...

...). But Aristotle, Kant, and Newman are very strange bedfellows for Fish, given that they are foundationalism incarnate. Passing panegyrics to Rorty aside, Save the World seems in this way often to roam very far from the ideas for which Fish is best known, and one is left wondering whether the arch...

... like Rorty. Williams Although there are some people who would put Cavell in the pragmatist camp. Moi Yes, but not Cavell himself. There’s also Rorty’s own criticism of Cavell’s work. Basically I think the word “pragmatist” is loaded with a specific tradition...

... a different moment and you could have been Pavement. At UVa, I know you had a seminar with Rorty, who seems to be one of the interlocutors over your shoulder. Bérubé Yep, changed my life. He was kind enough, in 94, to read through all of Public Access and send me a seven-page letter spelling...

... in American pragmatism as it emerged from Emerson to Rorty. the minnesota review Eperjesi Another institution you were active in was the School for Criticism and Theory. How did this relationship come about? Pease The SCT, for me, was a focal moment. It shifted the orientation of my project...

... Marx, including Friedrich Nietz­ sche, Martin Heidegger, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Jacques Der­ rida, Richard Rorty, and Stanley Cavell, to name but a few and not even those who place themselves explicitly in a Marxian tradition. (27) The political effect of Puchner’s compression...

.... I have no problem with your—or anyone else's—discussing my fiction about subalterns in terms of subalterns. Here, at least, I think Rorty's notion of different language games can be useful. But my preferring one language game over another can always be because I haven't seen the abuse...

... it is mundane, a place where fairness and caring for the whole are part of the normal operations of the institutions where one works and plays. Intellectuals with this latter mentality, more or less —​including, in the United States, Katha Pollitt, for example, Sean Wilentz, or Rich- ard Rorty...