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9780521353816

Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity

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  • ISBN13:

    9780521353816

  • ISBN10:

    0521353815

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1989-02-24
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Summary

Rorty examines human solidarity and liberalism through literature, philosophy, social theory and literary criticism.

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction
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
Index of names
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