Contingency, irony, and solidarity

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100 1 ⊔ ‡aRorty, Richard
245 1 0 ‡aContingency, irony, and solidarity / ‡cRichard Rorty.
260 ⊔ ⊔ ‡aCambridge ; ‡aNew York : ‡bCambridge University Press, ‡c©1989, 2009.
300 ⊔ ⊔ ‡axvi, 201 pages ; ‡c24cm.
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504 ⊔ ⊔ ‡aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 0 ‡gpt. 1. ‡tContingency: ‡tThe contingency of language -- ‡tThe contingency of selfhood -- ‡tThe contingency of a liberal community -- ‡gpt. 2. ‡tIronism and theory: ‡tPrivate irony and liberal hope -- ‡tSelf-creation and affiliation: Proust, Nietzsche, and Heidegger -- ‡tFrom ironist theory to private allusions: Derrida -- ‡gpt. 3. ‡tCruelty and solidarity: ‡tThe barber of Kasbeam: Nabokov on cruelty -- ‡tThe last intellectual in Europe: Orwell on cruelty -- ‡tSolidarity.
520 ⊔ ⊔ ‡a"Richard Rorty is one of the most provocative and influential thinkers of our time. His sustained critique of the foundationalist, metaphysical aspirations of philosophy has had a galvanizing effect both inside and outside philosophy departments, and has led Harold Bloom to describe him as "the most interesting philosopher in the world today." In his new 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. Specifically, novelists such as Orwell and Nabokov (both discussed in detail in the book) succeed in awakening us to the humiliation and cruelty of particular social practices and individual attitudes. 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." -- ‡cPublisher's Description.
520 ⊔ ⊔ ‡aAmerican 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.
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