From: Matt the Enraged Endorphin (mpkundert@students.wisc.edu)
Date: Tue Oct 08 2002 - 01:56:04 BST
Paco,
About three days ago, I sent an extended outline of suggested readings in
the "Unoffical Rorty Dictionary" thread (it was at Davor's request). But,
if you're like me and tend to delete posts you are not actively involved in
(and since the archives are down), you probably haven't read it, nor have
access to it.
Overall, I suggest checking out Philosophy and Social Hope from your local
library. If you are in America, and near any sizable metropolitan area
(including pint-sized cities like Madison, WI), then they'll probably have
it. If you are near a university library and can gain access (they
sometimes give out passes to the public, if you don't already have access),
then you're selection of Rorty-type materials is significantly larger. In
this case, I suggest the former and David Hall's Richard Rorty: Prophet and
Poet of the New Pragmatism. It is what basically gave me the broad
understanding of Rorty's whole project, before I got into the bits and
pieces of his later essays. I was then able to direct myself to the Rorty
essays that I was most interested in.
If none of this works, then John and Platt found an online version of the
Introduction to Consequences of Pragmatism
(http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/us/rorty.htm).
Unfortunately, this is the essay that I first read and stumbled on. Its
got all the words that took me a while to assimilate, so really isn't a
good example of his recent, more evolved (and easier to understand)
philosophy.
Good luck. I hope any of your readings of him are edifying and not in vain.
Matt
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