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Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity is a 1989 book by the American philosopher Richard Rorty, based on two sets of lectures he gave at University College, London, and at Trinity College, Cambridge.
23 de jul. de 2013 · Contingency, irony, and solidarity. by. Richard Rorty. Publication date. 1989. Topics. Language and languages -- Philosophy. Publisher. Cambridge University Press.
1 de mai. de 1989 · First Edition. 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.
- Richard Rorty
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...
27 de jun. de 2024 · A truly liberal culture, acutely aware of its own historical contingency, 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.
Contingency, Irony and Solidarity. By Richard Rorty. (Cambridge: Cam-bridge University Press, 1989. Pp. 201. $34.50 cloth, $10.95 paper.) Ever since Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature appeared in 1979, Rorty has been regarded as one of the leading English-speaking, postmodern philoso-phers.
Part I: Contingency I The contingency of language 2 The contingency of selfbood 3 The contingency of a liberal community Part II: Ironism and Theory 4 Private irony and liberal hope 5 Self-creation and affiliation: Proust, Nietzsche, and Heidegger 6 From ironist theory to private allusions: Derrida Part III: Cruelty and Solidarity
