Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity

Rorty believes that philosophy, as it stands, is inadequate in explaining human nature and his work attempts to fuse a philosophical perspective with literature. Novelists such as Orwell and Nabokov are discussed in detail to point out where philosophers have failed.

Klappentext
Rorty examines human solidarity and liberalism through literature, philosophy, social theory and literary criticism.


Zusammenfassung
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.

Inhalt
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.

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