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Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity

Categorie	Filosofie
Boeknummer	#343861-ZA32
Titel	Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity
Auteur	Rorty, Richard
Boektype	Paperback
Uitgeverij	Cambridge : University Press
Jaar van uitgave	circa 1993
ISBN10	0521367816
ISBN13	9780521367813
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Paperback, 8vo.
Samenvatting	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, individual freedom of the ironic, philosophical perspective with the public project of human solidarity as it is engendered through the insights and sens... (Lees verder)ibilities of great writers. The book has a characteristically wide range of reference from philosophy through social theory to literary criticism. It confirms Rorty's status as a uniquely subtle theorist, whose writing will prove absorbing to academic and nonacademic readers alike.
Pagina's	201
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 12,50

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