Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity
In this 1989 book Rorty argues that thinkers such as Nietzsche, Freud, and Wittgenstein have enabled societies to see themselves as historical contingencies, rather than as expressions of underlying, ahistorical human nature or as realizations of suprahistorical goals. This ironic perspective on the human condition is valuable on a private level, although it cannot advance the social or political goals of liberalism. In fact Rorty believes that it is literature not philosophy that can do this, by promoting a genuine sense of human solidarity. A truly liberal culture, acutely aware of its own historical contingency, would fuse the private, ind…
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- ISBN: 978-1-139-63570-7
- EAN: 9781139635707
- Produktnummer: 35947381
- Verlag: Cambridge University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1989
- Seitenangabe: 0 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
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