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Sto caricando le informazioni... La filosofia dopo la filosofia: contingenza, ironia e solidarieta (1989)di Richard Rorty
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. I have to admit I don't recall any details about this book. I didn't have the background to understand it. ( ) Ultimately, I don't find Rorty's attempt to redescribe the world in new language to be terribly compelling. Since he provides no criteria for choosing between languages, it would seem that his failure to move me is sufficient for me to ignore his philosophical thinking. That's not to say that this book isn't worth reading. It's clearly written, and it might be useful for those who find themselves adrift in a sea of uncertainty or those who uncritically harbor faith in transcendent truth. It's just that some of the shine has worn off a bit as time has passed; what may have been new ideas at the time have receded into the canon of dead metaphors. Obama's win inspired me to reread this book of pragmatic ideas, a favorite. Too bad Rorty didn't live to see his victory, not simply because our next President is an African American (which itself represents a liberal utopian ideal), but because Obama, in his actual speech, is a shift from cowboy cliches to liberal intellectualism. I'm hopeful that Obama will continue to redescribe America, as Rorty might say, rather than falling into old, ineffective ways of talking about things that matter to us all. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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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 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. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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