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Rorty, Richard
by Contingency, irony, and solidarity
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- ISBN 10
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Cambridge. 1990. Cambridge University Press. Reprinted Paperback Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 0521367816. 201 pages. paperback. . keywords: Philosophy. FROM THE PUBLISHER - In this book, major American philosopher Richard 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 but it cannot advance Liberalism's social and political goals. In fact, Rorty believes that it is literature and not philosophy that can do this, by promoting a genuine sense of human solidarity. Specifically, it is novelists such as Orwell and Nabokov who succeed in awakening us to the cruelty of particular social practices and individual attitudes. Thus, a truly liberal culture would fuse the private, individual freedom of the ironic, philosophical perspective with the public project of human solidarity as it is engendered through the insights and sensibilities of great writers. Rorty uses a wide range of references--from philosophy to social theory to literary criticism--to elucidate his beliefs. inventory #47686 ISBN: 0521367816.
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- Title
- Rorty, Richard
- Author
- Contingency, irony, and solidarity
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0521367816
- ISBN 13
- 9780521367813
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Place of Publication
- Cambridge
- This edition first published
- 1989-05
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