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In this book, major American philosopher Richard Rorty argues that thinkers such as Nietzsche, Freud, and Wittgenstein have enabled societies to see themselves as historical contingencies, rather than as expressions of underlying, ahistorical human nature, or as realizations of suprahistorical... read more
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About two hundred years ago, the idea that truth was made rather than found began to take hold of the imagination of Europe.
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- Richard Rorty (Author)
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- Dewey: 401
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