Rorty, Richard

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.

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Language and languages--Philosophy

P106 / .R586 1989

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