Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature  -  Richard Rorty

KORTE INHOUD

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 philoso...
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2008 Uitgever: Princeton University Press 472 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0691141320 ISBN-13: 9780691141329