The ironist and the romantic
Subtitle: reading Richard Rorty and Stanley Cavell
By: Áine Mahon
Series: Bloomsbury studies in American philosophy
Publisher: Bloomsbury; Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 195
ISBN-13: 9781441146014; 9781472569523; 9781441102942
Description: "At the time of his death in 2007, Richard Rorty was widely acclaimed as one of the world's most influential contemporary thinkers. Stanley Cavell, who has been a leading intellectual figure from the 1960s to the present, has been just as philosophically influential as Rorty though perhaps not as politically divisive. Both philosophers have developed from analytic to post-analytical thought, both move between philosophy, literature and cultural politics, and both re-establish American philosophical traditions in a new and nuanced key. The Ironist and the Romantic: Reading Richard Rorty and Stanley Cavell finds the sound of Rorty's cheerful pragmatism strikingly at odds with the anxious romanticism of Cavell. Beginning from this tonal discord, and moving through comprehensive comparative analysis on the topics of scepticism, American philosophy, literature, writing style and politics, this book presents the work of its central figures in a novel and mutually illuminating perspective. Áine Mahon's unique and original comparative reading will be of interest not only to those working on Rorty and Cavell but to anyone concerned with the current state of American philosophy."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references ( pages [179]-185) and index.
Table of contents: title: Return of the invisible tomato; title: What's the use of calling Cavell a pragmatist?; title: The turn to literature; title: Stylists of the philosophical; title: The personal and the political.