¿Esperanza O Conocimiento? Una Introduccion Al Pragmatismo

by Richard Rorty

Argumento en torno a que el pragmatismo puede definirse por su intención de sustituir las nociones de realidad, razón y naturaleza, mismas que están en el centro de la tradición filosófica occidental, por la noción de un futuro humano mejor.

108 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2003

About the author

Richard Rorty (1931–2007) developed a distinctive and controversial brand of pragmatism that expressed itself along two main axes. One is negative—a critical diagnosis of what Rorty takes to be defining projects of modern philosophy. The other is positive—an attempt to show what intellectual culture might look like, once we free ourselves from the governing metaphors of mind and knowledge in which the traditional problems of epistemology and metaphysics (and indeed, in Rorty's view, the self-conception of modern philosophy) are rooted. The centerpiece of Rorty's critique is the provocative account offered in Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature (1979, hereafter PMN). In this book, and in the closely related essays collected in Consequences of Pragmatism (1982, hereafter CP), Rorty's principal target is the philosophical idea of knowledge as representation, as a mental mirroring of a mind-external world. Providing a contrasting image of philosophy, Rorty has sought to integrate and apply the milestone achievements of Dewey, Hegel and Darwin in a pragmatist synthesis of historicism and naturalism. Characterizations and illustrations of a post-epistemological intellectual culture, present in both PMN (part III) and CP (xxxvii-xliv), are more richly developed in later works, such as Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity (1989, hereafter CIS), in the popular essays and articles collected in Philosophy and Social Hope (1999), and in the four volumes of philosophical papers, Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth (1991, hereafter ORT); Essays on Heidegger and Others (1991, hereafter EHO); Truth and Progress (1998, hereafter TP); and Philosophy as Cultural Politics (2007, hereafter PCP). In these writings, ranging over an unusually wide intellectual territory, Rorty offers a highly integrated, multifaceted view of thought, culture, and politics, a view that has made him one of the most widely discussed philosophers in our time.

Reviews

[Romeo Velarde · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is the first Rorty book I have read. It constitutes an excellent introduction to philosophical pragmatism as presented by the author in contrast with many, if not most of the recent and not so recent "philosophical schools". Rorty himself is considered part of neopragmatism. He draws a number of references and ideas from various pragmatists, all the way from James to Davidson.
Title is suggested as introductory to this philosophical school.

[Demian · Rating 5 out of 5]

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