Richard Rorty (University of Virginia)

Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

To understand what liberalism and human solidarity mean in terms of the human contingency and condition, Rorty examines literature, philosophy, social theory and literary criticism. This 1989 book confirms Rorty's status as a uniquely subtle theorist, whose writing will prove absorbing to academic and nonacademic readers alike.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 1989
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 338g
• ISBN-13: 9780521367813
• ISBN-10: 0521367816
• Artikelnr.: 22324030

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction
Part I. Contingency: 1. The contingency of language
2. The contingency of selfhood
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: 7. The barber of Kasbeam: Nabokov on cruelty
8. The last intellectual in Europe: Orwell on cruelty
9. Solidarity
Index of names.