Contingency, irony, and solidarity /

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 perspe...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rorty, Richard
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1989.
Temas:
Language and languages > Philosophy.
Langage et langues > Philosophie.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > General.
Language and languages > Philosophy
Contingentie.
Ironie.
Pragmatisme.
Taalfilosofie.
Philosophie du langage.
Western philosophy
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • pt. 1. Contingency: The contingency of language
  • The contingency of selfhood
  • The contingency of a liberal community
  • pt. 2. Ironism and theory: Private irony and liberal hope
  • Self-creation and affiliation: Proust, Nietzsche, and Heidegger
  • From ironist theory to private allusions: Derrida
  • pt. 3. Cruelty and solidarity: The barber of Kasbeam: Nabokov on cruelty
  • The last intellectual in Europe: Orwell on cruelty
  • Solidarity.

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