Books by Richard (Stanford University Rorty

This volume presents a selection of philosophical papers which Richard Rorty has written over the past decade. Topics discussed include the changing role of philosophy in Western culture over the course of recent centuries, the role of the imagination in intellectual and moral progress, and the notion of 'moral identity'.

The volume complements two highly successful previously published volumes of Richard Rorty's philosophical papers: Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth, and Essays on Heidegger and Others. The essays in this volume engage with the work of many of today's most innovative thinkers, touch on problems in contemporary feminism, and consider issues connected with human rights and cultural differences.

Richard Rorty's collected papers, written during the 1980s and now published in two volumes, take up some of the issues which divide Anglo-Saxon analytic philosophers and contemporary French and German philosophers. In this volume Rorty offers a Deweyan account of objectivity as intersubjectivity.