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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.
Em 1961 – quando publicou seu primeiro e importante artigo, “Pragmatism, Categories and Language” – Richard Rorty enviou um exemplar para seu pai. James Rorty agradeceu, mas não deixou de ironizar a adesão do filho a um academicismo que considerava tacanho:
Neil Gross. https://doi.org/10.7208/chicago/9780226309910.003.0002. Published: May 2008. Cite. Permissions. Share. 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 business.
3 de fev. de 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 ...
23 de dez. de 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.
His parents, James and Winifred Rorty, were activists, writers and social democrats. His maternal grandfather, Walter Rauschenbusch , was a central figure in the Social Gospel movement of the early 20th century.
Richard Rorty foi um filósofo que esteve em pé de guerra com a filosofia durante toda a sua vida. Defendia-se contra a pretensão de absoluto do pensamento analítico e renunciou durante décadas, a modo de protesto contra as correntes tradicionais do seu âmbito, a dirigir uma cátedra de filosofia (apenas aceitou até 1982 um ...
