The Ironist and the Romantic: Reading Richard Rorty and Stanley Cavell (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781441146014)

At the time of his death in 2007, Richard Rorty was widely acclaimed as one of the world's most influential contemporary thinkers. Stanley Cavell, who has been a leading intellectual figure from the 1960s to the present, has been just as philosophically influential as Rorty though perhaps not as politically divisive. Both philosophers have developed from analytic to post-analytical thought, both move between philosophy, literature and cultural politics, and both re-establish American philosophical traditions in a new and nuanced key.

The Ironist and the Romantic: Reading Richard Rorty and Stanley Cavell finds the sound of Rorty's cheerful pragmatism strikingly at odds with the anxious romanticism of Cavell. Beginning from this tonal discord, and moving through comprehensive comparative analysis on the topics of scepticism, American philosophy, literature, writing style and politics, this book presents the work of its central figures in a novel and mutually illuminating perspective. Áine Mahon's unique and original comparative reading will be of interest not only to those working on Rorty and Cavell but to anyone concerned with the current state of American philosophy.

Author: Áine Mahon
ISBN-10: 1441146016
ISBN-13: 9781441146014
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Language: English
Published: 07/17/2014
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.02lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.50d