Richard Rorty: The Making of an American Philosopher
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| Rating | : | 4.55 (807 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0226309908 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 390 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-02-02 |
| Language | : | English |
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There he came under the tutelage of polymath Richard McKeon, whose catholic approach to philosophical systems would profoundly influence Rorty’s own thought. In this masterly biography, Neil Gross explores the path of Rorty’s thought over the decades in order to trace the intellectual and professional journey that led him to that prominence.The child of a pair of leftist writers who worried that their precocious son “wasn’t rebellious enough,” Rorty enrolled at the University of Chicago at the age of fifteen. With a series of publications in the 1960s, Rorty quickly established himself as a strong thinker in that tradition—but b
Rorts and all Alvaro Lewis This making of an American philosopher only covers the making, that is from Rorty's grandparents, parents, schooling, and career until about 1982. Rorty continued to live and write for another 25 years but that period falls beyond the view of this inve. "Rorty Would Approve" according to Blanchard Demerchant. Sociologist Neil Gross has written a fascinating biography of Richard Rorty that attempts to show the sociological influences that formed Rorty into the politically radical, anti-analytical pragmatist we came to know and admire.Although the book's titl. Peter. said The New sociology meets Richard Rorty. Neil Gross, speaking for the "new sociology of ideas", has written this compelling and challenging book in order to explore social factors that explain an intellectual's life-time professional career choices. Using Richard Rorty as an empiric choice to
The book's subtle yet scathing critique of the tenure and promotion systems within universities reveals how such systems actually inhibit innovation in young scholars. (June)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. Using Rorty's career as a case study, Gross observes the social hierarchy among disciplines and notes that academics are largely motivated by desires for intellectual prestige, that radical intellectual innovation is most likely to come, not from young scholars, but from those who are sufficiently established as to be able to take bold professional risks, and that