Contingency, irony, and solidarity /
Richard Rorty.
- xvi, 201 pages ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contingency: The contingency of language -- The contingency of selfhood -- The contingency of a liberal community -- Ironism and theory: Private irony and liberal hope -- Self-creation and affiliation: Proust, Nietzsche, and Heidegger -- From ironist theory to private allusions: Derrida -- Cruelty and solidarity: The barber of Kasbeam: Nabokov on cruelty -- The last intellectual in Europe: Orwell on cruelty -- Solidarity. pt. 1. pt. 2. pt. 3.