Philosophy and politics, or about a romantic and a pragmatist
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1996
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Wydawnictwo Naukowe IF UAM
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We would like to go on to the terrain which is perhaps the most difficult to catch and describe, which may lie at the origin of the
most serious criticism, which, finally, requires one’s own choice - in a word (to paraphraze the young Habermas from a famous
review of Heidegger’s Introduction to Metaphysics), which requires thinking "with Rorty against Rorty". We will follow here the
path of numerous texts, grouping and separating them depending on attempts of answers given over the years to some basic
questions, and some basic tensions that are born. The question we want to discuss here pertains to the fundamental - both for
Rorty and for his critics as well - issue of the relation between philosophy and politics which makes Rorty bashed from all sides,
philosophical and political, radical, leftist, postmodern, feminist as well as neoconservative and rightist (whatever the above labels were to mean, what is significant is their opposition). Let us say in the most general terms: Rorty in his philosophical and political choices is an exceptional figure (for his attitude to the
philosophy/politics relation, to the theory/practice distinction etc. etc. is exceptional). Philosophically, he is in accordance with contemporary French postmodern philosophy, with Derrida,
Foucault, Lyotard - despite numerous more or less specific differences revealing themselves over the years, as well as
changing over the years - therefore he is often referred to as "postmodernist".
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Richard Rorty, pragmatism, neopragmatism, new pragmatism, irony and solidarity, contingency, philosophy and politics, romantic, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, Martin Heidegger, Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity, Philosophical Papers, What Is Pragmatism, play, language, political engagement, the American Left, leftist
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In: Marek Kwiek, Rorty’s Elective Affinities. The New Pragmatism and Postmodern Thought. Wydawnictwo Naukowe IF UAM. 1996, pp. 238-256.