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Title: The best place today to start reading Rorty
Review: Rorty is enormously influential today and deservedly so. His work is an intellectual treat not to be missed, even if you think you disagree with him. If you are curious about Rorty's ideas and have some taste for philosophy, this is the book to read first. Having read all of his book length works and compilations of papers as they have appeared, I can recommend this as giving the best overview and summary. In particular the first several chapters are the best available summary of his current thinking, and a very stimulating encapsulation even for those who have been immersed for some time in this man's work and the reemergence of pragmatism. If you start with this book and read no more than this, you will have a good summary of his ideas. If you find it interesting and want more, you can begin reading his other works and have this as a touchstone of his current views.
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