Richard Rorty e a emergência da filosofia pós-analítica nos Estados Unidos: transformações institucionais e crise disciplinar, 1970-1980

Abstract

Can the history of higher education help us understand the causes behind philosophical controversies and the processes of intellectual change by which old intellectual styles are replaced by new ones? In this article, I relate the emergence of post-analytic philosophy in the United States in the 1970s to the reforms and resulting expansion of higher education in the second half of the 20th century, which affected philosophy as an academic discipline and as a profession. Taking as my point of departure Richard Rorty’s reflection on the state of the discipline in the early 1980s, I show how his diagnosis of disciplinary crisis, stated in the form of a philosophical critique of analytic philosophy’s theoretical and methodological assumptions, are the outcome of a longer and broader process of transformation of the institutional bases of the professional philosophical life in the United States.