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PHILOSOPHY AS CULTURAL POLITICS

This volume presents a selection of the philosophical papers which

Richard Rorty has written over the past decade, and complements

three previous volumes of his papers: Objectivity, Relativism, and

Truth, Essays on Heidegger and Others , and Truth and Progress . Topics

discussed include the changing role of philosophy in Western culture

over the course of recent centuries, the role of the imagination in intel-

lectual and moral progress, the notion of “moral identity,” the

Wittgensteinian claim that the problems of philosophy are linguistic

in nature, the irrelevance of cognitive science to philosophy, and the

mistaken idea that philosophers should ﬁnd the “place” of such things

as consciousness and moral value in a world of physical particles. The

papers form a rich and distinctive collection which will appeal to

anyone with a serious interest in philosophy and its relation to culture.

PHILOSOPHY AS

CULTURAL POLITICS

Philosophical Papers, Volume 4

RICHARD RORTY

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

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Contents

Acknowledgments

page ix

Cultural politics and the question of the existence of God

Pragmatism as romantic polytheism

Justice as a larger loyalty

Honest mistakes

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Grandeur, profundity, and ﬁnitude

Philosophy as a transitional genre

Pragmatism and romanticism

Analytic and conversational philosophy

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A pragmatist view of contemporary analytic philosophy

Naturalism and quietism

Wittgenstein and the linguistic turn

Holism and historicism

Kant vs. Dewey: the current situation of moral philosophy

Index of names

vii

Preface

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