Contingency, irony, and solidarity
By: Richard Rorty.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1989
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 201
ISBN-13: 9780521353816; 9780521367813
Subjects: Language and languages -- Philosophy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The contingency of language; title: The contingency of selfhood; title: The contingency of a liberal community; title: Private irony and liberal hope; title: Self-creation and affiliation: Proust, Nietzsche, and Heidegger; title: From ironist theory to private allusions: Derrida; title: The barber of Kasbeam: Nabokov on cruelty; title: The last intellectual in Europe: Orwell on cruelty; title: Solidarity.