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9780271036281 Academic Inspection Copy

Feminist Interpretations of Richard Rorty

  • ISBN-13: 9780271036281
  • Publisher: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • Edited by Marianne Janack
  • Price: AUD $180.00
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  • Local release date: 14/06/2010
  • Format: Hardback 240 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Research methods: general [GPS]
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A discussion of issues raised by Richard Rorty's engagement with feminist philosophy. Includes essays about the relevance for feminism of pragmatism, philosophy, rhetoric, realism, and liberalism.


Contents

Preface

Nancy Tuana

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Marianne Janack

1. Feminism and Pragmatism

Richard Rorty

2. From Irony to Prophecy to Politics: A Reply to Richard RortyNancy Fraser

3. Feminism and Pragmatism: A Reply to Richard Rorty

Sabina Lovibond

4. Hope, Truth, and Rhetoric: Prophecy and Pragmatism in Service of Feminism’s Cause

John C. Adams

5. Feminism, Ideology, and Deconstruction: A Pragmatist View

Richard Rorty

6. Democracy and Interpretation

Georgia Warnke

7. Rorty’s Antirepresentationalism in the Context of Sexual Violence

Linda Martín Alcoff

8. Drawing Battle Lines and Choosing Bedfellows: Rorty, Relativism, and Feminist Strategy

Sharyn Clough

9. Richard Rorty, Feminism, and the Annoyances of Pragmatism

Stephen R. Yarbrough

10. Naturalism and Normativity: Rorty and Barad

Alessandra Tanesini

Selected Bibliography

Contributors

Index


“This is a worthy collection, coming at a point in time when feminist theorists and philosophers more generally are negotiating Rorty’s place in the canon.”

—Evelyn Brister, Hypatia

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