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Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature

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When it first appeared in 1979, Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature hit the philosophical world like a bombshell. In it, Richard Rorty argued that, beginning in the seventeenth century, philosopher...
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When it first appeared in 1979, Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature hit the philosophical world like a bombshell. In it, Richard Rorty argued that, beginning in the seventeenth century, philosophers developed an unhealthy obsession with the notion of representation: comparing the mind to a mirror that reflects reality. Rorty's book is a powerful critique of this imagery and the tradition of thought that it spawned.

Today, the book remains a must-read and stands as a classic of twentieth-century philosophy. Its influence on the academy, both within philosophy and across a wide array of disciplines, continues unabated. This edition includes new essays by philosopher Michael Williams and literary scholar David Bromwich, as well as Rorty's previously unpublished essay "The Philosopher as Expert."

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Price: $23.95
Pages: 480
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Imprint: Princeton University Press
Series: Princeton Classics
Publication Date: 31 October 2017
ISBN: 9780691178158
Format: Paperback
BISACs:

PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge
"This is an ambitious and important book. Ambitious because it attempts to place the main concerns and discussions of contemporary philosophy within a historical perspective; important because this is all too rarely attempted within our present philosophical culture, and almost never done this well."---Charles Taylor, Times Literary Supplement
Richard Rorty (1931-2007) was a prolific philosopher and public intellectual who, over the course of his career, taught at Princeton, the University of Virginia, and, until his death, Stanford University.