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Editorial: Rorty and Paradigm Change in Philosophy

Editorial: Rorty and Paradigm Change in Philosophy A&K Analyse & Kritik 2019; 41(1): 1–2 Editorial: Rorty and Paradigm Change in Philosophy https://doi.org/10.1515/auk-2019-0001 Three years after its foundation, in 1981, this journal presented a contribution by Richard Rorty in German translation, which was republished as ‘Philosophy in America Today’ in another journal the same year and included in Rorty’s first ar- ticle selection Consequences of Pragmatism (1982). A lively debate on the article and Rorty’s Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature (1979) ensued and drew a lengthy ‘Reply to six critics’ from Rorty. These diversified and historically symptomatic re- sponses to Rorty’s radical attack on ‘analytic philosophy’, both from defenders of the ‘analytic’ mainstream like J. Bennett and from historicist philosophers like A. MacIntyre, are still available in this journal’s online archive, in the issues from 1982 to 1984. Nearly forty years after its original publication, in awareness of Rorty’s unique later development, we thought it time to reconsider what had become of Rorty’s re- bellious address to his philosophical peers, and whether his critique of basic pre- suppositions in the philosophers’ game had left any marks in today’s discipline. With his 1979 book, Rorty radicalized already existing internal self-criticism of the at the time dominant ‘analytic’ http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Analyse & Kritik de Gruyter

Editorial: Rorty and Paradigm Change in Philosophy

Analyse & Kritik , Volume 41 (1): 2 – May 1, 2019
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A&K Analyse & Kritik 2019; 41(1): 1–2 Editorial: Rorty and Paradigm Change in Philosophy https://doi.org/10.1515/auk-2019-0001 Three years after its foundation, in 1981, this journal presented a contribution by Richard Rorty in German translation, which was republished as ‘Philosophy in America Today’ in another journal the same year and included in Rorty’s first ar- ticle selection Consequences of Pragmatism (1982). A lively debate on the article and Rorty’s Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature (1979) ensued and drew a lengthy ‘Reply to six critics’ from Rorty. These diversified and historically symptomatic re- sponses to Rorty’s radical attack on ‘analytic philosophy’, both from defenders of the ‘analytic’ mainstream like J. Bennett and from historicist philosophers like A. MacIntyre, are still available in this journal’s online archive, in the issues from 1982 to 1984. Nearly forty years after its original publication, in awareness of Rorty’s unique later development, we thought it time to reconsider what had become of Rorty’s re- bellious address to his philosophical peers, and whether his critique of basic pre- suppositions in the philosophers’ game had left any marks in today’s discipline. With his 1979 book, Rorty radicalized already existing internal self-criticism of the at the time dominant ‘analytic’

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