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Although I've read numerous excerpts from Richard Rorty's 1979 "Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature" and am familiar with the overall drift of his arguments, I've never read the book cover to cover. For a number of reasons, I felt I had to remedy this lacuna in my reading.
As I pulled my copy out of the plastic trunk in the garage where I had been keeping it, I decided that I wanted something else to read as well, something of quite a different literary genre with which to "cut " this dense philosophical tome. This trunk happens to contain two fiction tetralogies which I have yet to read as well as some other lengthy novels. None of those struck me as suitable for the purpose.
Inspiration came instead from a charming photograph of a nude woman lying on a quilt in dappled sunlight, with a basket , a loaf of bread and a bottle of wine beside her, and resting a book open in her hand against her body:
NSFW link mstdn.love/@jaj0_0/11447221105…
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Although I've read numerous excerpts from Richard Rorty's 1979 "Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature" and am familiar with the overall drift of his arguments, I've never read the book cover to cover. For a number of reasons, I felt I had to remedy this lacuna in my reading.
As I pulled my copy out of the plastic trunk in the garage where I had been keeping it, I decided that I wanted something else to read as well, something of quite a different literary genre with which to "cut " this dense philosophical tome. This trunk happens to contain two fiction tetralogies which I have yet to read as well as some other lengthy novels. None of those struck me as suitable for the purpose.
Inspiration came instead from a charming photograph of a nude woman lying on a quilt in dappled sunlight, with a basket , a loaf of bread and a bottle of wine beside her, and resting a book open in her hand against her body:
NSFW link mstdn.love/@jaj0_0/11447221105…
On closer inspection the book turned out to be a volume of poetry by...
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