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James Rorty (March 30, 1890 – February 26, 1973) was a 20th-century American radical writer and poet as well as political activist who addressed controversial topics that included McCarthyism, Jim Crow, American industries, advertising, and nutrition, and was perhaps best known as a founding editor of the New Masses magazine.
Così definito il posto del pragmatismo nella storia del pensiero, Rorty individua ripetutamente in James il pensatore pragmatista «più pragmatista» degli altri, quello che ha accentuato il carattere del pragmatismo come fuga dall’astrazione, dalle soluzioni verbali, dalle cattive ragioni a priori, dai principi fissi, dai sistemi chiusi ...
Richard McKay Rorty è stato un filosofo statunitense. Ebbe una lunga carriera nel campo degli studi umanistici, filosofici e letterari. La sua variegata esperienza intellettuale lo avvicinò alla tradizione analitica, che rigettò in una fase successiva.
3 feb 2001 · Richard Rorty (1931–2007) developed a distinctive and controversial brand of pragmatism that expressed itself along two main axes. One is negative – a critical diagnosis of what Rorty takes to be defining projects of modern philosophy. The other is positive – an attempt to show what intellectual culture might look like, once we ...
13 mag 2022 · Più problematico poteva risultare agli occhi degli analitici la grande importanza che Rorty assegnava, più che a Peirce, a William James e, soprattutto, a John Dewey. Vedi, al riguardo, Calcaterra (2016: 21-32).
23 dic 2021 · Collection: Oxford Scholarship Online. In this chapter I highlight commonalities in the thought of William James (1842–1910) and Richard Rorty around a melioristic ethics of belief which foregrounds a distinctly pragmatic interrelation of choice, commitment, and responsibility.
Abstract. James Rorty was the son of an Irish immigrant, political refugee, and aspiring poet who, along with his wife, a former schoolteacher, ran a dry-goods.
