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On the Idea of Philosophy as Bildungsroman : Rorty and his Critics

On the Idea of Philosophy as Bildungsroman : Rorty and his Critics Contemporary Pragmatism Vol. 2, No. 1 (June 2005), 115­133 Editions Rodopi © 2005 The appearance of several new works and a multivolume critical anthology devoted to Richard Rorty casts in bold relief the surprising lack of sympathetic interpretations his work has generated over the past few decades. After examining the complex nature of the critical reaction to Rorty, this essay reviews two new introductions to his thought that attempt to approach him in a spirit of hermeneutic charity. I argue that Rorty's somewhat neglected idea of treating philosophy as a Bildungsroman may shed some light on the problem of how to read Rorty usefully. To include Richard Rorty alongside Michel Foucault and Jacques Derrida as the most widely read philosophers of the late twentieth century no longer seems a stretch. Few living intellectuals can match Rorty's interdisciplinary breadth of influence. Rorty criticism has gone beyond a cottage industry: Richard Rumana's (now three year-old) annotated bibliography of the secondary literature on Rorty boasts over 1200 entries, some 80 representatives of which have been republished by Sage in a four-volume collection devoted to Rorty's work, edited by Alan Malachowski. New books and anthologies on Rorty now proliferate faster than one http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Contemporary Pragmatism Brill

On the Idea of Philosophy as Bildungsroman : Rorty and his Critics

Contemporary Pragmatism , Volume 2 (1): 115 – Apr 21, 2005

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Brill
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© Copyright 2005 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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1572-3429
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1875-8185
DOI
10.1163/18758185-90000005
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Contemporary Pragmatism Vol. 2, No. 1 (June 2005), 115­133 Editions Rodopi © 2005 The appearance of several new works and a multivolume critical anthology devoted to Richard Rorty casts in bold relief the surprising lack of sympathetic interpretations his work has generated over the past few decades. After examining the complex nature of the critical reaction to Rorty, this essay reviews two new introductions to his thought that attempt to approach him in a spirit of hermeneutic charity. I argue that Rorty's somewhat neglected idea of treating philosophy as a Bildungsroman may shed some light on the problem of how to read Rorty usefully. To include Richard Rorty alongside Michel Foucault and Jacques Derrida as the most widely read philosophers of the late twentieth century no longer seems a stretch. Few living intellectuals can match Rorty's interdisciplinary breadth of influence. Rorty criticism has gone beyond a cottage industry: Richard Rumana's (now three year-old) annotated bibliography of the secondary literature on Rorty boasts over 1200 entries, some 80 representatives of which have been republished by Sage in a four-volume collection devoted to Rorty's work, edited by Alan Malachowski. New books and anthologies on Rorty now proliferate faster than one

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Published: Apr 21, 2005

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