Subjectivity, Realism, and Postmodernism: The Recovery of the World in Recent Philosophy.

The Review of Metaphysics | December 1, 1995| | Copyright

Farrell, Frank B. The Recovery of the World in Recent Philosophy. Cambridge University Press, 1994. xii + 290 pp. $49.95--Farrell characterizes his book as a counternarrative to Richard Rorty's influential account of the breakdown of traditional pictures of mind, language, and reality brought about by the linguistic and interpretive turn in recent Anglo-American and European philosophy. It is not Farrell's aim to breathe new life into these old ideas but instead to retell the story of their demise and in so doing to challenge the conclusions drawn by Rorty. Thus whereas Rorty's ...

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