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  • Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature: Thirtieth-Anniversary Edition

    Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature by Rorty, Richard;

    Thirtieth-Anniversary Edition

    Series: Princeton Classics; 30;

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    Product details:

    • Edition number Thirtieth-Anniversary Edition
    • Publisher Princeton University Press
    • Date of Publication 10 November 2017
    • Number of Volumes Print PDF

    • ISBN 9780691178158
    • Binding Paperback
    • No. of pages480 pages
    • Size 215x139 mm
    • Weight 311 g
    • Language English
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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includes new essays by philosopher Michael Williams and literary scholar David Bromwich, as well as Rorty's previously unpublished essay "The Philosopher as Expert."



    "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

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