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Take Care of Freedom and Truth Will Take Care of Itself

Interviews with Richard Rorty

Richard Rorty author Eduardo Mendieta editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Stanford University Press

Published:29th Nov '05

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This volume collects a number of important and revealing interviews with Richard Rorty, spanning more than two decades of his public intellectual commentary, engagement, and criticism. In colloquial language, Rorty discusses the relevance and nonrelevance of philosophy to American political and public life. The collection also provides a candid set of insights into Rorty's political beliefs and his commitment to the labor and union traditions in this country. Finally, the interviews reveal Rorty to be a deeply engaged social thinker and observer.

"The United States has produced a great many idiosyncratic champions of human freedom, Walt Whitman and William James above all. It is time to recognize Rorty's place in that lineage."—Dissent

ISBN: 9780804746182

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 340g

256 pages