TY - BOOK TI - Philosophy and the Idea of Freedom SN - 0415579651 U1 - 191 PY - 2011///-08-30 CY - London PB - Routledge N1 - Section One Anti-Rorty Part I Knowledge 1 Rorty's account of science 2 Pragmatism, epistemology and the inexorability of realism Part II Agency 3 The essential tension of Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature - or a tale of two Rortys 4 How is freedom possible? Part III Politics 5 Self-defining versus social engineering - poetry and politics: the problem-field of Contingency, irony and solidarity 6 Rorty's apologetics Part IV Kibitzing 7 Reference, fictionalism and radical negation 8 Rorty's changing conceptions of philosophy Section Two For Critical Realism ER -