Philosophy as Cultural Politics

Rorty explores the relation between philosophy and culture.

Topics covered include:

1. the changing role of philosophy in Western culture over the course of recent centuries,
2. the role of the imagination in intellectual and moral progress,
3. the notion of 'moral identity',
4. Wittgenstein's claim that the problems of philosophy are linguistic in nature,
5. the irrelevance of cognitive science to philosophy
6. the mistaken idea that philosophers should find the 'place' of such things as consciousness and moral value in a world of physical particles.

• Richard Rorty, Philosophy as Cultural Politics: Philosophical Papers, Cambridge University Press, 2007. ISBN 0-521-69835-9. ISBN 978-0-521-69835-1.