Richard Rorty: A Short Introduction by Martin Müller, Martin Müller

Richard Rorty: A Short Introduction
Martin Müller, Martin Müller
Page: 53
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ISBN: 9783658388379
Publisher: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden
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The essential offers a systematic guide to a fruitful reading of Rorty. At the same time, it provides a brief introduction to the main features of Richard Rorty's neopragmatism. The author proposes to read it as a fragile balance of pragmatism and romanticism by which Rorty seeks to change our self-image. Moreover, he elucidates this transformative ambition through a sketch of "continence, irony, and solidarity" and the utopian figure of the liberal ironist. The essential concludes with a reference to Rorty's hitherto unrecognized ethico-political motivation and with a methodological suggestion for further reading of his texts: One must apply the pragmatist method to himself.

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