After the Demise of the Tradition: Rorty, Critical Theory, and the Fate of Philosophy

by Kai Nielsen

This ambitious book addresses the "end-of-philosophy" debate and the challenge it presents to contemporary philosophy, both continental and analytic. It is a chain of argument as well as a conversation conducted in the presence of the major contributors to that debate: the critics (especially Richard Rorty) of the dominantly Platonic-Cartesian-Kantian tradition on the one hand and its defenders on the other. Nielsen's account draws on Wittgenstein,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367015838
• ISBN13: 9780367015831
• Release Date: April 2020
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 288 Pages