Abstract
Rorty did not prefer any special philosophical method, neither analytic nor phenomenological, but he was a spontaneous phenomenologist. He learnt a lot first of all from Heidegger but also from Gadamer and Sartre. This chapter shows the main philosophical debates between Rorty and the abovementioned important figures of phenomenology and hermeneutics. Enumerating their main controversies, we emphasize also those ideas which were appropriated, usually in a modified form, by Rorty. At the end of the chapter, those arguments will be explained, which prove the phenomenological character of Rorty’s neopragmatism.
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Kremer, A. (2023). Phenomenology (Heidegger, Gadamer, Sartre). In: Müller, M. (eds) Handbuch Richard Rorty. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-16253-5_29
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