Practicing Philosophy
Subtitle: Pragmatism and the Philosophical Life
Publisher: Routledge
Published: December 24, 1996
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780415913959
First sentence: Throughout the Reaganite eighties and into the post-Soviet nineties, Richard Rorty has been using pragmatism to praise and defend the virtues of contemporary American democracy and to advocate a political philosophy which he has dubbed "postmodern bourgeois liberalism."