Lucy Keer

If you aren’t familiar with the previous mainstream view, it’s probably better to understand that first, since it’s what Rorty was reacting to. Something like Bertrand Russell maybe.

Yeah, I think I know the broad outline of the previous mainstrim view from a variety of sources. It will still be interesting to read Rorty, to see this view fully articulated and criticized.

I've been planning to read that Rorty book too. (Though I've been planning to read a whole lot of books, so no idea when I'll get to that one in particular.)

Tbh fwiw, given where you are at, it may be of more historical interest to you than telling you something you don’t know.

I've been skimming Christopher Norris's book on Derrida and it's mentioned a few times, so I was intrigued. There are a lot of science wars references which are probably mostly in the 'historical interest' category though.

It was a huge bombshell in American phil at the time. I had read a bunch of Continental stuff before I came to it, and was like “yeah yeah whatever, have you got anything new to say, no you don’t, do you,” and you might have the same experience.

Interesting! I've never had anything like that, I feel like I'm missing out. For me it's just been more of a personality thing, where I'm just temperamentally not a great fit with the analytic style, so it was easy to spot my dissatisfaction with it.