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The Future of Religion
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The Future of Religion
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| | | Vattimo and Rorty consider the future of religion together with the political, social, and historical aspects that characterize our contemporary postmodern, postmetaphysical, and post-Christian world. Their work opens new ways of imagining what it is to be religious -- ways that emphasize charity, solidarity, and irony. This unique collaboration is notable not only for its fusion of pragmatism (Rorty) and hermeneutics (Vattimo) but also for its recognition of the limits of both traditional religious belief and modern secularism.
| Author Bio| Richard Rorty | | Richard Rorty was a public philosopher best known for his brand of pragmatism. He received his undergraduate and master's degrees from the University of Chicago and his doctorate from Yale. After holding teaching posts at such esteemed universities as Princeton and the University of Virginia, Rorty moved to Stanford University as a professor of comparative literature and philosophy. His activity in the humanities was molded not only by his respect for American pragmatists, such as Dewey, but also by his incorporation of continental philosophers, such as Heidegger and Derrida, into his post-analytic philosophies of language and neo-pragmatism. A vocal and accessible philosopher, Rorty's most popular books are: PHILOSOPHY AND THE MIRROR OF NATURE, CONTINGENCY, IRONY, AND SOLIDARITY, and ACHIEVING OUR COUNTRY. His critics accused him at different times of relativism, inconsistency, and being an irreverent name-dropper. Yet, Rorty was, above all, a critical thinker engaged with social and epistemological questions of a contemporary and a timeless nature. |
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