Representation and man

pp. 136-147

in: Jay F. Rosenberg, Linguistic representation, Berlin, Springer, 1974

Abstract

The neo-Kantian revolution in reaction to the Humean excesses of atomism, positivism, and phenomenalism characteristic of the early parts of this century has now been in full flower for some time.¹ One attuned to the historical dialectics of philosophy, then, should have been anticipating a neo-Hegelian counter-reaction for several years. Nor would he have been disappointed. Indeed, the lines of battle have recently been well and sharply drawn in Rorty's manifesto "The World Well Lost".