Philosophy and social hope
By: Richard Rorty.
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780140262889
Subjects: Philosophy, Modern -- 20th century; Pragmatism
Notes: "A Penguin original"--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Trotsky and the wild orchids; title: Truth without correspondence to reality; title: A world without substances or essences; title: Ethics without principles; title: The banality of pragmatism and the poetry of justice; title: Pragmatism and law: a response to David Luban; title: Education as socialization and as individualization; title: The humanistic intellectual: eleven theses; title: The pragmatist's progress: Umberto Eco on interpretation; title: Religious faith, intellectual responsibility and romance; title: Religion as conversation-stopper; title: Thomas Kuhn, rocks and the laws of physics; title: On Heidegger's Nazism; title: Failed prophecies, glorious hopes; title: A spectre is haunting the intellectuals: Derrida on Marx; title: Love and money; title: Globalization, the politics of identity and social hope; title: Looking backwards from the year 2096; title: The unpatriotic academy; title: Back to class politics.