HISTORY

 

ANCIENT THOUGHT (c.700 BCE-300 CE):

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Classical Literature

 

MEDIEVAL THOUGHT (c.300-c.1400):

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Medieval Literature

 

RENAISSANCE THOUGHT (c.1400-c.1600):

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Renaissance Literature

 

EARLY MODERN THOUGHT (c.1600-c.1785):

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Neoclassical Literature

 

NINETEENTH CENTURY THOUGHT:

bullet Romanticism (c.1785-1830):
bullet Romantic Literature
bullet Mid-Century & Fin de Siècle (1830-1900) Thought:
bullet 'Victorian' Literature

 

TWENTIETH CENTURY THOUGHT:

bullet Analytic Philosophy
bullet Continental Theory:
bullet Idealism
bullet Marxism
bullet Phenomenology, Existentialism, Hermeneutics
bullet Psychoanalysis
bullet (Post-)Structuralisms:
bullet Deconstruction
bullet Deleuzean Theory
bullet Dialogism (Bakhtin Circle)
bullet Foucauldian Discourse Theory
bullet Saussurean Semiology / Structuralism
bullet Structuralist Marxism
bullet Structuralist Psychoanalysis
bullet Feminist Theory
bullet Modernism, Myth & New Criticism
bullet Post-colonial Theory
bullet Pragmatism
 
bullet Twentieth Century Literature

 

REGIONS

 

AFRICAN AND AFRICAN DIASPORIC THOUGHT:

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Literature

 

ASIAN THOUGHT:

bullet Central Asia
bullet East Asian Thought:
bullet Literature
bullet South Asian Thought:
bullet Literature
bullet South-East Asia

 

AUSTRALASIAN THOUGHT:

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Literature

 

CANADIAN THOUGHT:

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Literature

 

CARIBBEAN THOUGHT:

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Literature

 

EUROPEAN THOUGHT:

bullet Central Europe
bullet Eastern Europe:
bullet Russia:
bullet Literature
bullet Northern Europe:
bullet Literature
bullet Southern Europe:
bullet Greece:
bullet Literature
bullet Italy:
bullet Literature
bullet Spain:
bullet Literature
bullet Western Europe:
bullet France:
bullet Literature
bullet Germany:
bullet Literature
bullet UK and Eire:
bullet Literature

 

LATIN AMERICAN THOUGHT:

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Literature

 

MIDDLE EASTERN THOUGHT:

bullet Arabic/Islamic Thought:
bullet Literature
bullet Israeli/Jewish Thought:
bullet Literature

 

USA: AMERICAN THOUGHT:

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Literature
bullet African American Thought:
bullet Literature
bullet Native American Thought

 

TOPICS

 

ARTS:

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Literature:

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Author
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Literary Form & Genre:

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Drama
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Poetry
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Prose
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Literary History, Intertextuality, Canonicity
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Metaliterature
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Reader
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Representation
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Music

 

BEING

 

COMMUNICATION:

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Linguistics, Philosophy of Language, & Logic
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Rhetoric, Discourse Theory, & Argumentation Theory
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Semiotics

 

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Language and Literature

 

EDUCATION

 

HISTORY

 

THE HUMAN BEING (BODY, MIND, SELF):

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Philosophy of Mind & Cognitive Science
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Psychology

 

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Gender
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Race
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Sexuality

 

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Literature, the Mind & the Self

 

KNOWLEDGE

 

METAPHILOSOPHY / METATHEORY

 

MORALITY:

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Morality and Literature

 

NATURE (NATURAL SCIENCES):

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Nature and Literature

 

RELIGION:

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Religion and Literature

 

SOCIETY (SOCIAL SCIENCES):

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Cultural Studies
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Economics
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Human Geography
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Law
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Sociology

 

SPORTS
 

GENERAL

ASSOCIATIONS

CAREERS

CONFERENCES

JOURNALS

PHOTOS

PRIMARY SOURCES

SECONDARY SOURCES

TEACHING AND LEARNING

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RICHARD RORTY (1931 - 2007)


Homepage

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Off-Line:

  • Anthologies:

    • Philosophy and Social Hope.  Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1999. 

    • Philosophical Papers.  4 Vols.  Cambridge: CUP.

      • Philosophy as Cultural Politics.  Vol. 4.  2007.

      • Truth and Progress.  Vol. 3.  1998.

      • Essays on Heidegger and Others.  Vol. 2.  1991.

      • Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth.  Vol. 1.  1991.

    • Consequences of Pragmatism: Essays, 1972-1980.  Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1982.

  • Edited Works:

    • Philosophy in History.  Ed. Rorty, J. B. Schneewind and Quentin Skinner.  Cambridge: CUP, 1985.

    • The Linguistic Turn: Essays in Philosophical Method.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1967.  Rpt. 1992.

  • Selected Individual Works:

    • What's the Use of Truth?.  By Rorty and Pascal Engel.  New York: Columbia UP, 2007.

    • “Donald Davidson: In Memoriam.”  International Journal of Philosophical Studies 14.3 (2006): .

    • “Looking back at ‘Literary Theory.’”  Comparative Literature in an Age of Globalization.  Ed. Haun Saussy.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2006.  63-67.

    • “Is Philosophy Relevant to Applied Ethics?”  Business Ethics Quarterly 16.3 (2006): 369-380.

    • “Truth and Realism: Remarks at St. Andrews.”  Truth and Realism.  Ed. Patrick Greenough and Michael P. Lynch.  Oxford: Clarendon, 2006.  239-247.

    • The Future of Religion.  By Rorty and Gianni Vattimo.  Ed. Santiago Zabala.  New York: Columbia UP, 2005.

    • "Holism and Historicism."  2005.

      • Philosophy as Cultural Politics.  Vol. 4 of Philosophical Papers.  4 Vols.  Cambridge: CUP, 2007.  176-182.

    • "Naturalism and Quietism."  2005.

      • Philosophy as Cultural Politics.  Vol. 4 of Philosophical Papers.  4 Vols.  Cambridge: CUP, 2007.  147-159.

    • “Romantics, Sophists, and Systematic Philosophers.”  Metaphilosophy and Chinese Thought: Interpreting David Hall.  Ed. Ewing Chinn and Henry Rosemont, Jr.  New York: Global Scholarly Publications, 2005.  3-19.

    • “The Brain as Hardware, Culture as Software.”  Inquiry 47.3 (2004): 219-235.

    • “Philosophy-Envy.”  Daedalus (Fall 2004): 18-24.

    • "Philosophy as a Transitional Genre."  Pragmatism, Critique, Judgment: Essays for Richard J. Bernstein.  Ed. Seyla Benhabib and Nancy Fraser.  Cambridge: MIT Press, 2004.  1-28.

      • Philosophy as Cultural Politics.  Vol. 4 of Philosophical Papers.  4 Vols.  Cambridge: CUP, 2007.  89-104.

    • “Trapped between Kant and Dewey: the Current Situation of Moral Philosophy.”  New Essays on the History of Autonomy: a Collection Honoring J. B. Schneewind.  Ed. Natlies Brender and Larry Krasnoff.  Cambridge: CUP, 2004.  195-214.

      • Philosophy as Cultural Politics.  Vol. 4 of Philosophical Papers.  4 Vols.  Cambridge: CUP, 2007.  183-201.

    • “Universalist Grandeur, Romantic Depth, Pragmatist Cunning.”  Diogenes 51 (2004): 129-141.

    • “Analytic and Conversational Philosophy.”  A House Divided: Comparing Analytic and Continental Philosophy.  Ed. C. G. Prado.  Amherst: Humanity Books, 2003.  17-31.

      • Philosophy as Cultural Politics.  Vol. 4 of Philosophical Papers.  4 Vols.  Cambridge: CUP, 2007.  120-129.

    • “Anti-Clericalism and Atheism.”  Religion after Metaphysics.  Ed. Mark Wrathall.  Cambridge: CUP, 2003.  37-46.

    • "A Pragmatist View of Contemporary Analytic Philosophy.”  The Pragmatic Turn in Philosophy: Contemporary Engagements between Analytic and Continental thought.  Ed. William Egginton and Mike Sandbothe.  New York: SUNY Press, 2003.  131-144.

      • Philosophy as Cultural Politics.  Vol. 4 of Philosophical Papers.  4 Vols.  Cambridge: CUP, 2007.  133-146.

    • “Comments on Pippin on James.”  Inquiry 45.3 (2002): 351–59.

    • “Cultural Politics and the Question of the Existence of God.”  Radical Interpretation in Religion.  Ed. Nancy Frankenberry, Nancy.  Cambridge: CUP, 2002.  53-77.

      • Philosophy as Cultural Politics.  Vol. 4 of Philosophical Papers.  4 Vols.  Cambridge: CUP, 2007.  3-26.

    • “Hope and the Future.”  Peace Review 14.2 (2002): 149–55.

    • “The Continuity between the Enlightenment and ‘Postmodernism.’”  What’s Left of Enlightenment?  Ed. Keith Michael Baker and Peter Hannis Reill.  Stanford: Stanford UP, 2001.

    • “An Imaginative Philosopher: the Legacy of W. V. Quine.”  Chronicle of Higher Education February 2, 2001: B7-9.

    • “Redemption from Egotism: James and Proust as Spiritual Exercises.”  Telos 3.3 (2001): 243–63.

    • “Being that Can be Understood is Language: on Hans-Georg Gadamer and the Philosophical Conversation.”  London Review of Books 22. 6 (March 16, 2000): 23-25.

    • “Is 'Cultural Recognition' a Useful Concept for Leftist Politics?”  Critical Horizons 1.1 (2000): 7-20.

    • “Kuhn.”  A Companion to the Philosophy of Science.  Ed. W. H. Newton-Smith.  Oxford: Blackwell, 2000.  203-206.

    • Philosophy and Social Hope.  New York: Penguin USA, 2000.

    • “The Overphilosophization of Politics.”  Constellations 7.1 (2000): 128–32.

    • “Pragmatism.”  The International Journal of Psycho-Analysis 81. 4 (2000): 819-825.

    • “Comment on Robert Pippin's 'Naturalness and Mindedness: Hegel's Compatibilism.'”  European Journal of Philosophy 7.2 (1999): 213–16.

    • “Davidson’s Mental-Physical Distinction.”  The Philosophy of Donald Davidson.  Ed. Lewis Hahn.  La Salle, IL: Open Court, 1999.  575-594.

    • “Failed Prophecies, Glorious Hopes.”  Constellations 6.2 (1999): 216–21.

    • “Pragmatism as Anti-Authoritarianism.”  Revue Internationale de Philosophie 53.207.1 (1999): 7-20.

    • “Rorty v. Searle, at Last: a Debate.”  By Rorty and John Searle.  Logos 2.3 (1999): 20–67.

    • Achieving Our Country: Leftist Thought in Twentieth-Century America.  Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1998.

    • "Afterward: Pragmatism, Pluralism and Postmodernism."  1998. 

      • Philosophy and Social Hope.  Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1999.  262-277.

    • "The Contingency of Philosophical Problems: Michael Ayers on Locke."  Truth and Progress.  Vol. 3 of Philosophical Papers.  Cambridge: CUP, 1998.  274-289.

    • “Davidson between Wittgenstein and Tarski.”  Critica: revista hispanoamericana de filosofia 30.88 (1998): 49-71.

    • “McDowell, Davidson, and Spontaneity.”  Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 58.2 (1998): 389-394.

    • “Pragmatism.”  Routledge International Encyclopedia of Philosophy.  Vol. 7.  London: Routledge, 1998.  632-640.

    • “Pragmatism as Romantic Polytheism.”  The Revival of Pragmatism.  Ed. Morris Dickstein.  Durham: Duke UP, 1998.  21-36.

      • Philosophy as Cultural Politics.  Vol. 4 of Philosophical Papers.  4 Vols.  Cambridge: CUP, 2007.  27-41.

    • "Robert Brandom on Social Practices and Representation."  Truth and Progress.  Vol. 3 of Philosophical Papers.  4 Vols.  Cambridge: CUP, 1998.  122-137.

    • "The Very Idea of Human Answerability to the World: John McDowell's Version of Empiricism."  Truth and Progress.  Vol. 3 of Philosophical Papers.  4 Vols.  Cambridge: CUP, 1998.  138-152.

    • “Introduction.”  Wilfrid Sellars: Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind.  Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1997.  1-12.

    • “Realism, Antirealism and Pragmatism: Comments on Alston, Chisholm, Davidson, Harman and Searle.”  Realism / Antirealism and Epistemology.  Ed. Christopher Kulp.  Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 1997.  149-171. 

    • "Thomas Kuhn, Rocks and the Laws of Physics."  Common Knowledge 6.1 (1997): .

      • Philosophy and Social Hope.  Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1999.  175-189.

    • “What Do You Do When They Call You a ‘Relativist’?”  Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 57.1 (1997): 173-177.

    • “The Ambiguity of ‘Rationality.’”  Constellations 3.1 (1996): 73-82. 

    • “Duties to the Self and Others: Comments on a Paper by Alexander Nehamas.”  Salmagundi 111 (1996): 59-67.

    • “Emancipating our Culture: a Response to Habermas.”  Debating the State of Philosophy: Habermas, Rorty and Kolakowski.  Ed. Jozef Niznik and John T. Sanders.  Westport: Praeger, 1996.  24-30.

    • “Global Utopias, History and Philosophy.”  Cultural Pluralism, Identity, and Globalization.  Ed. Luiz Soares.  Rio de Janeiro: UNESCO/ISSC/EDUCAM, 1996.  457-469.

      • Rpt. as "Globalisation, the Politics of Identity and Social Hope."  Philosophy and Social Hope.  Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1999.  229-239.

    • “Justice as a Larger Loyalty.”  Justice and Democracy: Cross-Cultural Perspectives.  Ed. Ron Bontekoe and Marietta Stepaniants.  Honolulu: U of Hawaii P, 1997.  9-22. 

      • Philosophy as Cultural Politics.  Vol. 4 of Philosophical Papers.  4 Vols.  Cambridge: CUP, 2007.  42-55.

      • Cultural Pluralism, Identity, and Globalization.  Ed. Luiz Soares.  Rio de Janeiro: UNESCO/ISSC/EDUCAM, 1996.  

    • “The Inspirational Value of Great Works of Literature.”  Raritan 16.1 (1996): 8-17. 

      • Rpt. as an Appendix to Achieving Our Country: Leftist Thought in Twentieth-Century America.  Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1998.

    • “On Moral Obligation, Truth and Common Sense.”  Debating the State of Philosophy: Habermas, Rorty and Kolakowski.  Ed. Jozef Niznik and John T. Sanders.  Westport: Praeger, 1996.  48-52.

    • “The Notion of Rationality.”  Debating the State of Philosophy: Habermas, Rorty and Kolakowski.  Ed. Jozef Niznik and John T. Sanders.  Westport: Praeger, 1996.  84-88. 

    • “Postmodernism and Antifoundationalism.”  Philosophy, Science, and Ideology in Political Thought.  Ed. David Morrice.  New York: St. Martin’s, 1996.

    • “Pragmatism and Law: response to David Luban.” Cardozo Law Review 28.1 (1996): . 

      • Philosophy and Social Hope.  Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1999.  104-113.

      • The Revival of Pragmatism.  Ed. Morris Dickstein.  Durham, NC: Duke UP, 1998.  304-311.

    • “Relativism: Finding and Making.”  Debating the State of Philosophy: Habermas, Rorty and Kolakowski.  Ed. Jozef Niznik and John T. Sanders.  Westport: Praeger, 1996.  31-47.

      • Philosophy and Social Hope.  Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1999.  xvi-xxxii.

    • “Religious Faith, Intellectual Responsibility and Romance.”  American Journal of Theology and Philosophy 17: 2 (1996), 121-140. 

      • Philosophy and Social Hope.  Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1999.  148-167.

      • Cambridge Companion to William James.  Ed. Ruth-Anna Putnam.  Cambridge: CUP, 1997.  84-102. 

      • Pragmatism, Neo-Pragmatism, and Religion.  Ed. Charley D. Hardwick.  New York: Lang, 1997.

    • "Failed Prophecies, Glorious Hopes."  1998.

      • Philosophy and Social Hope.  Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1999.  201-209.

    • “Remarks on Deconstruction and Pragmatism.”  Deconstruction and Pragmatism.  Ed. Chantal Mouffe.  London: Routledge, 1996.  13-18.

    • “Response to Ernesto Laclau."   Deconstruction and Pragmatism.  Ed. Chantal Mouffe.  London: Routledge, 1996.  69-76.

    • “Response to Kolakowski."  Debating the State of Philosophy: Habermas, Rorty and Kolakowski.  Ed. Jozef Niznik and John T. Sanders.  Westport: Praeger, 1996.  58-66.

    • “Response to Simon Critchley.”  Deconstruction and Pragmatism.  Ed. Chantal Mouffe.  London: Routledge, 1996.  41-46.

    • John Dewey: an Intellectual Portrait.  By Rorty and Sidney Hook.  New York: Prometheus, 1995.

    • "Deconstructionist Theory."  From Formalism to Poststructuralism.  Vol. 8 of Cambridge History of Literary Criticism.  Cambridge: CUP, 1995. 

    • “Is Derrida a Quasi-Transcendental Philosopher?”  Contemporary Literature 36.1 (1995): 173–200.

      • Rpt. as "Derrida and the Philosophical Tradition."  Truth and Progress.  Vol. 3 of Philosophical Papers.  4 Vols.  Cambridge: CUP, 1998.  327-350.

    • “Habermas, Derrida, and the Functions of Philosophy.”  Revue Internationale de Philosophie 49.4 (194) (1995): 437–60.

      • Truth and Progress.  Vol. 3 of Philosophical Papers.  4 Vols.  Cambridge: CUP, 1998.  307-326.

    • “Is Truth a Goal of Inquiry?  Donald Davidson versus Crispin Wright.”  Philosophical Quarterly 45 (1995): 281–300.

      • Truth and Progress.  Vol. 3 of Philosophical Papers.  4 Vols.  Cambridge: CUP, 1998.  19-42.

    • "A Spectre is Haunting the Intellectuals: Derrida on Marx."  European Journal of Philosophy 3.3 (1995): 289-298.

      • Philosophy and Social Hope.  Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1999.  210-222.

    • “Charles Taylor on Truth.”  Philosophy in an Age of Pluralism: the Philosophy of Charles Taylor in Question.  Ed. James Tully.  Cambridge: CUP, 1994.  20–36.

      • Truth and Progress.  Vol. 3 of Philosophical Papers.  4 Vols.  Cambridge: CUP, 1998.  84-97.

    • Hoffnung statt Erkentniss.  Vienna: Passagen, 1994.

      • "Truth Without Correspondence to Reality."  Philosophy and Social Hope.  Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1999.  23-46.

      • "A World Without Substances or Essences."  Philosophy and Social Hope.  Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1999.  47-71.

      • "Ethics Without Principles."  Philosophy and Social Hope.  Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1999.  72-90.

    • "John Searle on Realism and Relativism."  Academe 80 (1994): 52-63.

      • Truth and Progress.  Vol. 3 of Philosophical Papers.  4 Vols.  Cambridge: CUP, 1998.  63-83.

    • "Religion as a Conversation Stopper."  Common Knowledge 3.1 (1994): 1-6.

      • Philosophy and Social Hope.  Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1999.  168-174.

    • "Hilary Putnam and the Relativist Menace.”  Journal of Philosophy 90 (1993): 443–461.

      • Truth and Progress.  Vol. 3 of Philosophical Papers.  4 Vols.  Cambridge: CUP, 1998.  43-62.

    • “Human Rights, Rationality, and Sentimentality.”  On Human Rights: the 1993 Oxford Amnesty Lectures.  Ed. Susan Hurley and Stephen Shute.  New York: Basic, 1993.  112–134.

      • Truth and Progress.  Vol. 3 of Philosophical Papers.  4 Vols.  Cambridge: CUP, 1998.  167-185.

    • "Trotsky and the Wild Orchids."  Wild Orchids and Trotsky: Messages from American Universities.  Ed. Mark Edmundson.  New York: Viking, 1993.

      • Philosophy and Social Hope.  Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1999.  3-20.

    • "The Pragmatist's Progress: Umberto Eco on Interpretation."  Interpretation and Overinterpretation.  By Rorty, Umberto Eco, Jonathan Culler, and Christina Brooke-Rose.  Ed. Stephano Collini.  Cambridge: CUP, 1992.  89-108.
      • Philosophy and Social Hope.  Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1999.  131-147.

    • "Rationality and Cultural Difference."  Philosophy East and West 42 (1992): 581-596. 

      • Truth and Progress.  Vol. 3 of Philosophical Papers.  Cambridge: CUP, 1998.  186-201.

    • “Feminism and Pragmatism.”  Michigan Quarterly Review (1991): 3–14.

      • Truth and Progress.  Vol. 3 of Philosophical Papers.  Cambridge: CUP, 1998.  202-227.

      • Tanner Lectures on Human Values.  Ed. Grethe B. Peterson.  Vol. 13.  Salt Lake City: U of Utah P, 1994.

    • "Heidegger, Contingency and Pragmatism."  Essays on Heidegger and Others.  Volume 2 of Philosophical Papers.  Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1991.  27-49. 

    • "Wittgenstein, Heidegger and the Reification of Language."  Essays on Heidegger and Others.  Volume 2 of Philosophical Papers.  Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1991.  50-65.

    • "The Banality of Pragmatism and the Poetry of Justice."  Southern California Law Review (1990): . 

      • Philosophy and Social Hope.  Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1999.  93-103.

      • Pragmatism in Law and Society.  Ed. Michael Brint and William Weaver.  Boulder, CO: Westview, 1991.  89-97.

    • "Another Possible World."  London Review of Books February 8, 1990.  21.

      • Rpt. as "On Heidegger's Nazism."  Philosophy and Social Hope.  Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1999.  190-197

    • Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity.  Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1989.  

    • "Is Derrida a Transcendental Philosopher?"  Yale Journal of Criticism (1989): . 

      • Essays on Heidegger and Others.  Volume 2 of Philosophical Papers.  Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1991.  119-128.

    • "Education without Dogma."  Dissent (Spring 1989): 198-204. 

      • Rpt. as "Education as Socialisation and Individualisation."  Philosophy and Social Hope.  Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1999.  114-126.

    • "Heidegger, Kundera and Dickens."  Essays on Heidegger and Others.  Volume 2 of Philosophical Papers.  Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1991.  66-82.

    • "The Humanistic Intellectual: Eleven Theses."  ACLS Occasional Papers 10 (1989): 9-12

      • Philosophy and Social Hope.  Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1999.  127-130.

    • "Philosophy as Science, as Metaphor, and as Politics."  The Institution of Philosophy.  Ed. Avner Cohen and Rudolph Burger.  La Salle, IL: Open Court, 1989.  138-149. 

      • Essays on Heidegger and Others.  Volume 2 of Philosophical Papers.  Cambridge: CUP, 1991.  9-26.

    • "Two Meanings of Logocentrism: a Reply to Norris."  Redrawing the Boundaries: Analytic Philosophy, Deconstruction and Literary Theory. Ed. Reed Way Dasenbrock.  Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1989.  204-216. 

      • Essays on Heidegger and Others.  Volume 2 of Philosophical Papers.  Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1991.  107-118.

    • "Inquiry as Recontextualisation: an Anti-dualist Account of Interpretation."  1988. 

      • Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth.  Vol. 1 of Philosophical Papers.  Cambridge: CUP, 1991.  93-110.

    • "Is Natural Science a Natural Kind?"  Construction and Constraint: the Shaping of Scientific Rationality.  Ed. Ernan McMullin.  Notre Dame: U of Notre Dame P, 1988.  49-74. 

      • Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth.  Vol. 1 of Philosophical Papers.  Cambridge: CUP, 1991.  46-62.

    • "The Priority of Democracy to Philosophy."  The Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom.  Ed. Merrill Peterson and Robert Vaughan.  Cambridge: CUP, 1988.  257-288. 

      • Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth.  Vol. 1 of Philosophical Papers.  Cambridge: CUP, 1991.  175-196.

    • "Representation, Social Practice and Truth."  Philosophical Studies 54 (1988): 215-228. 

      • Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth.  Vol. 1 of Philosophical Papers.  Cambridge: CUP, 1991.  151-161.

    • "Non-Reductive Physicalism."  Theorie der Subjektivitat.  Ed. Konrad Cramer, et al.  Frankfurt: Suhrkamp Verlag, 1987.  278-296. 

      • Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth.  Vol. 1 of Philosophical Papers.  Cambridge: CUP, 1991.  113-125.

    • "Science as Solidarity."  The Rhetoric of the Human Sciences.  ed. John S. Nelson, Alan Megill, and D. N. McCloskey.  Madison: U of Wisconsin, 1987. 

      • Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth.  Vol. 1 of Philosophical Papers.  Cambridge: CUP, 1991.  35-62.  

    • "Unfamiliar Noises: Hesse and Davidson on Metaphor."  Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 61 (1987): 283-296. 

      • Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth.  Vol. 1 of Philosophical Papers.  Cambridge: CUP, 1991.  162-172.

    • "The Contingency of Language."  London Review of Books April 17 (1986): 3-6. 

      • Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity.  3-22.

    • "The Contingency of Selfhood."  London Review of Books May 8 (1986): 11-14. 

      • Rpt. in Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity.  23-43.

    • "The Contingency of Community."  London Review of Books July 24 (1986): 10-14. 

      • Rpt. as "The Contingency of a Liberal Community."  in Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity.  44-69.

    • "On Ethnocentrism: a Reply to Clifford Geertz."  Michigan Quarterly Review 25 (1986): 525-534.

      • Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth.  Vol. 1 of Philosophical Papers.  Cambridge: CUP, 1991.  203-210.

    • "Foucault and Epistemology."  Foucault: a Critical Reader.  Ed. D. C. Hoy.  Oxford: Blackwell, 1986.  41-49.

    • "Pragmatism, Davidson and Truth."  Truth and Interpretation: Perspectives on the Philosophy of Donald Davidson.  Ed. Ernest LePore.  Oxford: Blackwell, 1986.  333-355. 

      • Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth.  Vol. 1 of Philosophical Papers.  Cambridge: CUP, 1991.  126-150.

    • "Philosophy Without Principles."  Critical Inquiry 11 (1985): 132-138.

    • "Texts and Lumps." New Literary History 17 (1985): 1-15. 

      • Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth.  Vol. 1 of Philosophical Papers.  Cambridge: CUP, 1991.  78-92.

    • "Deconstruction and Circumvention."  Critical Inquiry 11 (1984): 1-23. 

      • Essays on Heidegger and Others.  Volume 2 of Philosophical Papers.  Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1991.  85-106.

    • "The Historiography of Philosophy: Four Genres."  Philosophy in History.  Ed. Rorty, J. B. Schneewind and Quentin Skinner.  Cambridge: CUP, 1985.  49-75.

    • "Introduction."  By Rorty, J. B. Schneewind and Quentin Skinner.  Philosophy in History.  Ed. Rorty, J. B. Schneewind and Quentin Skinner.  Cambridge: CUP, 1985.

    • "Solidarity or Objectivity?"  Nanzan Review of American Studies 6 (1984): 1-19. 

      • Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth.  Vol. 1 of Philosophical Papers.  Cambridge: CUP, 1991.  21-24.

      • Post-Analytic Philosophy.  Ed. John Rajchman and Cornel West.  New York: Columbia UP, 1985.  3-19. 

    • "Pragmatism Without Method."  Sidney Hook: Philosopher of Democracy and Humanism.  Ed. Paul Kurtz.  Buffalo: Prometheus, 1983.  259-273. 

      • Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth.  Vol. 1 of Philosophical Papers.  Cambridge: CUP, 1991.  63-77.

    • "Contemporary Philosophy of Mind."  Synthese 53 (1982): 323-348.  

    • "Introduction: Pragmatism and Philosophy."  Consequences of Pragmatism: Essays, 1972-1980.  Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1982.  xiii-xlvii. 

      • "Pragmatism and Philosophy."  After Philosophy.  Ed. K. Bayles, J. Bohman, and T. McCarthy.  1987.

    • "Philosophy in America Today."  The American Scholar (1982): . 

      • Consequences of Pragmatism: Essays, 1972-1980.  Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1982.  211-230.

    • "Method, Social Science and Social Hope."  Canadian Journal of Philosophy 11 (1981): 569-588. 

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      • Philosophy and the Mirror of Human Nature.  Ch. 7. 

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  • Selected Interviews:

    • Take Care of Freedom and Truth Will Take Care of Itself: Interviews with Richard Rorty.  Ed. Eduardo Mendieta.  Stanford: Stanford UP, 2005.

    • Against Bosses, Against Oligarchies: a Conversation with Richard Rorty.  By Rorty, Derek Nystrom and Kent Puckett.  Chicago: Prickly Paradigm, 2002.

On-Line:

SOURCES: SECONDARY

Off-Line:

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    • Brandom, Robert, ed.  Rorty and his Critics.  Oxford: Blackwell, 2000.

    • Festenstein, Matthew, and Simon Thompson, eds.  Richard Rorty: Critical Dialogues.  Cambridge: Polity, 2002.

    • Guignon, Charles, and David Hiley, eds.  Richard Rorty.  Cambridge: CUP, 2003.

    • Hardwick, Charles, and Don Crosby, eds.  Pragmatism, Neo-Pragmatism, and Religion: Conversations with Richard Rorty.  London: Peter Lang, 1997.

    • Langsdorf, Lenore, and Andrew R. Smith, eds.  Recovering Pragmatism's Voice: the Classical Tradition, Rorty, and the Philosophy of Communication.  Albany: SUNY Press, 1995.

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