After Philosophy: The Novelist as Cultural Hero of Modernity? On Richard Rorty's New Pragmatism
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1998
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New York: Berghahn Books
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Richard Rorty’s approach to literature
is consistently – to use his own opposition – ‘solidarity-related’; what he calls the ‘other side’, literary self-creation, remains programmatically and intentionally undiscussed. One gets the impression
that literature, and the novel in particular, is being burdened with an (‘unbearable’) heaviness of responsibility. Does the novel in Rorty’s reflections appear as a source of multifarious metaphors, of
whole worlds born out of a writer’s imagination? Is there in it another
dimension, where mundane obligations no longer bind the human being and where one can give rein to usually hidden desires and passions? The answer is in the negative.
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American neopragmatism, New Pragmatism, Richard Rorty
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Theoria. A Journal of Social and Political Theory, No. 92, December 1998, pp. 77-97