Feminist Interpretations of Richard Rorty by Marianne Janack (English) Hardcover

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When Richard Rorty died on June 8, 2007, obituaries lionized him as one of the 'world's most influential cultural philosophers'. This title presents classic and new essays on Rorty's engagement with feminist philosophy, including essays about the relevance for feminism of pragmatism, philosophy, rhetoric, realism, and liberalism.

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When Richard Rorty died on June 8, 2007, obituaries lionized him as one of the 'world's most influential cultural philosophers', and as a thinker whose work covered a wide and varied terrain of literature, philosophy, politics, aesthetics, and cultural critique. Most famous for his rejection of the analytic tradition, Rorty had a relationship to the philosophical canon, and the discipline of philosophy, that was as fraught and full of tensions as it is for most feminist philosophers. Rorty chose to use his 1990 Tanner Lecture on Human Values (the text of which is the first chapter in this volume) to side with feminists Marilyn Frye, Catherine MacKinnon, and Adrienne Rich, who tried to show the importance of opening up new logical space within which women's voices could be heard. "Feminist Interpretations of Richard Rorty" presents classic and new essays on Rorty's engagement with feminist philosophy, including essays about the relevance for feminism of pragmatism, philosophy, rhetoric, realism, and liberalism.The chapters in this volume not only take up Rorty's conversation with feminism; they also capture, in a more distilled form, the debates that were the central concern of feminist theory in the late twentieth century and that continue to demand our responses, perhaps in slightly different forms, in the beginning of the twenty-first. In addition to the editor, the contributors are John C. Adams, Linda Martin Alcoff, Sharyn Clough, Nancy Fraser, Sabina Lovibond, Alessandra Tanesini, Georgia Warnke, and Stephen R. Yarbrough.

Author Biography

Marianne Janack is the Sidney Wertimer Associate Professor of Philosophy at Hamilton College.

Table of Contents

ContentsPrefaceNancy TuanaAcknowledgmentsIntroductionMarianne Janack1. Feminism and PragmatismRichard Rorty2. From Irony to Prophecy to Politics: A Reply to Richard RortyNancy Fraser3. 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. Adams5. Feminism, Ideology, and Deconstruction: A Pragmatist ViewRichard Rorty6. Democracy and InterpretationGeorgia Warnke7. Rorty's Antirepresentationalism in the Context of Sexual Violence Linda Martín Alcoff8. Drawing Battle Lines and Choosing Bedfellows: Rorty, Relativism, and Feminist Strategy Sharyn Clough9. Richard Rorty, Feminism, and the Annoyances of PragmatismStephen R. Yarbrough10. Naturalism and Normativity: Rorty and Barad Alessandra TanesiniSelected BibliographyContributors Index

Review

"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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Feminist Interpretations of Richard Rorty presents classic and new essays on Rorty's engagement with feminist philosophy, including essays about the relevance for feminism of pragmatism, philosophy, rhetoric, realism, and liberalism.

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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.

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"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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"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

Details ISBN0271036281 Publisher Pennsylvania State University Press Year 2010 ISBN-10 0271036281 ISBN-13 9780271036281 Format Hardcover Imprint Pennsylvania State University Press Place of Publication Pennsylvania Country of Publication United States Edited by Marianne Janack DEWEY 191 Birth 1964 Short Title FEMINIST INTERPRETATIONS OF RI Language English Media Book Author Marianne Janack Pages 240 Series Re-Reading the Canon UK Release Date 2010-04-06 Publication Date 2010-04-06 NZ Release Date 2010-04-06 US Release Date 2010-04-06 Alternative 9780271036298 Audience Undergraduate AU Release Date 2010-04-14 We've got this

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