Rorty's Politics of Redescription

Author(s) Gideon Calder

Language: English

Genre(s): Philosophy

Series: Political Philosophy Now

  • May 2007 · 192 pages ·216x138mm

  • · Paperback - 9780708319598
  • · Hardback - 9780708319604

Richard Rorty is among the most cited, influential and notorious of recent philosophers. This book seeks to take Rorty seriously as a social and political philosopher, and to argue that his work is not as flippant, as frothy, or as easily dismissed as his opponents often tend to portray it.

Author(s): Gideon Calder

Dr. Gideon Calder is Senior Lecturer in Political Philosophy at the Centre for Social Ethics, University of Wales, Newport. He has written widely in his specialist field and is a member of the Editorial Boards of The Journal of Critical Realism and Human Affairs: A Postdisciplinary Journal for Humanities and Social Sciences.

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