Cover of Contingency, irony, and solidarity

Contingency, irony, and solidarity

by Richard Rorty

1989 201 pages eng

In this book Rorty argues that thinkers such as Nietzsche, Freud, and Wittgenstein have enabled societies to see themselves as historical contingencies, rather than as expressions of underlying, ahistorical human nature or as realizations of suprahistorical goals. This ironic perspective on the huma…

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