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Book Review: Political Theory: Karl Marx: An Intellectual Biography

final book of philosophical papers, Philosophy as Cultural Politics, and its title concept – both of which have escaped significant critical attention. The outcome is a genuine enquiry into the central question of his work: the metaphilosophical concern with what philosophy is and should be. Thus, where Habermas’, Brandom’s, and Ramberg’s established readings are developed by Rorty’s strong emphasis on cultural and social categories in that volume, Koopman and Voparil powerfully argue for the centrality of this conception of cultural criticism throughout Rorty’s work. Finally, the remaining entries illustrate the real potentialities of Rorty’s cultural philosophy in areas ranging from feminism to post-national citizenship. The strength of the volume under review is this simultaneous unity and plurality. It offers both canonical and novel cohesive interpretations of Rorty’s entire thought and reveals some of the diverse areas where it can be specifically employed. This represents a new wave of criticism that emphasises Rorty’s positive role for philosophy over the end-of-philosophy polemic. In this way, this volume is both an introduction to and a furthering of Rorty’s work. The weakness here is a tendency to remain isolated within pragmatist debates. This volume does too little to engage Rorty’s later philosophical project with contemporary debates in philosophy and political theory. Rorty tore down philosophical barriers. While this volume engages with and even theorises that project further, it refrains from connecting Rorty’s thought with other answers to that metaphilosophical question (e.g. post-analytic thought, recent Continental philosophy, Critical Theory). Nonetheless, this remains an essential volume for engaging with Rorty’s work; whether as an initial enquiry or a continuing conversation, it has much to offer on both Rorty’s project and his relevance to social and political life.