An edition of Contingency, irony, and solidarity (1989)

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An edition of Contingency, irony, and solidarity (1989)

Contingency, irony, and solidarity

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In this 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 sensibilities 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.

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Cover of: Contingency, irony, and solidarity
Contingency, irony, and solidarity
1989, Cambridge University Press
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Cover of: Contingency, irony, and solidarity
Contingency, irony, and solidarity
1989, Cambridge University Press
in English
Cover of: La filosofia dopo la filosofia
La filosofia dopo la filosofia: contingenza, ironia e solidarietà
1989, Laterza
in Italian - 1. ed.
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Table of Contents

The contingency of language
The contingency of selfhood
The contingency of a liberal community
Private irony and liberal hope
Self-creation and affiliation: Proust, Nietzsche, and Heidegger
From ironist theory to private allusions: Derrida
The barber of Kasbeam: Nabokov on cruelty
The last intellectual in Europe: Orwell on cruelty
Solidarity.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Cambridge, New York

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Library of Congress
P106 .R586 1989

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Pagination
xvi, 201 p. ;
Number of pages
201

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL23241517M
Internet Archive
contingencyirony00rort_0
ISBN 10
0521353815, 0521367816
ISBN 13
9780521353816, 9780521367813
LCCN
88023358
Library Thing
1160573
Goodreads
1240246
86098

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