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Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature

Paperback • 2017 • 1. edition

Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature

By Richard Rorty

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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 ...Show more

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9780691178158

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Princeton University Press

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2017

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Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature

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