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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:
14 de dez. de 2013 · Em sua aproximação cada vez maior entre verdade e justificação (ou verdadeiro e justificado), Richard Rorty desenvolve um projeto de abordagem da questão que leve em consideração o novo horizonte cultural proporcionado por pensadores como James, Dewey, Thomas Khun, Quine e Davidson, no âmbito da filosofia anglo-americana, e ...
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 ...
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.
Read alongside James, Rortyan irony emerges as an ethical form of antiauthoritarian fallibilism. The combination of epistemic modesty and willingness to listen and learn from others with an account of ethical responsiveness is a signal contribution of their pragmatisms.
