The question of self-creation

dc.contributor.authorKwiek, Marek
dc.date.accessioned2014-12-31T07:38:31Z
dc.date.available2014-12-31T07:38:31Z
dc.date.issued1996
dc.description.abstractI would like to take into consideration in this chapter the possibility of Richard Rorty's evolution of views in terms of - suggested by him - distinction between the private and the public as well as in terms of his dichotomous pair of "solidarity" and "self-creation". My efforts would aim at showing that Rorty as a commentator on other philosophers is more and more inclined to value the significance of a self-creational, developing one's "final vocabulary" way of philosophizing, while on the other hand - as a philosopher himself he has remained as far as the private sphere goes - in his own philosophizing - rather moderate and full of reserve. Thus I would like to trace two roles possible in a philosophical language game - to have a look at Rorty’s account of particular philosophers as heroes of the philosophical tradition and to have a look at Rorty himself in the role of a philosopher in a traditional sense of the term, that is to say, interested in the so-called "philosophical problems, "eternal, perennial problems of philosophy", generally - a language game of Philosophy with a capital "p” (to use the opposition between "post-Philosophical philosophy" and "Philosophy" from Consequences of Pragmatism). First, we would have to outline briefly the Rortyan sense of particular elements of the aforementioned dichotomies, explain a little the concepts from Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity that interest us in this chapter. Let us begin by saying that Rorty - distinguishing between writers of self-creation (such as Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger or Nabokov) on the one hand and writers of solidarity (such as Marx, Mill, Habermas or Rawls) on the other - advises us not to attempt to make choices between the two kinds, not to oppose the two camps and rather, as he puts it, to "give them equal weigh and then use them for different purposes".pl_PL
dc.identifier.citationIn: Marek Kwiek, Rorty’s Elective Affinities. The New Pragmatism and Postmodern Thought. Wydawnictwo Naukowe IF UAM. 1996. pp. 86-103.pl_PL
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10593/12469
dc.language.isoen_USpl_PL
dc.publisherWydawnictwo Naukowe IF UAMpl_PL
dc.subjectRichard Rortypl_PL
dc.subjectself-creationpl_PL
dc.subjectsolidaritypl_PL
dc.subjectpublic/privatepl_PL
dc.subjectpublic-private splitpl_PL
dc.subjectAmerican neopragmatismpl_PL
dc.subjectConsequences of Pragmatismpl_PL
dc.subjectpostmodernismpl_PL
dc.subjectconversationpl_PL
dc.subjectphilosophy as conversationpl_PL
dc.subjectliberal ironistpl_PL
dc.subjectrecontextualizationpl_PL
dc.subjectanti-essentialismpl_PL
dc.subjectPhilosophy and the Mirror of Naturepl_PL
dc.subjectContingency, Irony, and Solidaritypl_PL
dc.subjectcontingencypl_PL
dc.subjectConsequences of Pragmatismpl_PL
dc.subjectepistemologypl_PL
dc.subjectWittgensteinpl_PL
dc.subjectHegelpl_PL
dc.subjectJacques Derridapl_PL
dc.subjectMichel Foucaultpl_PL
dc.subjectLyotardpl_PL
dc.subjectPlato-Kantpl_PL
dc.subjectVladimir Nabokovpl_PL
dc.subjectJohn Rawlspl_PL
dc.titleThe question of self-creationpl_PL
dc.typeRozdział z książkipl_PL

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