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Author | Richard Rorty |
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Language | English |
Subject | Philosophy |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Publication date | 1989 |
Publication place | United States |
Media type | Print (hardcover · paperback) |
Pages | 201 |
ISBN | 978-0-521-35381-6 |
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LC Class | P106 .R586 1989 |
Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity is a 1989 book by the American philosopher Richard Rorty, based on two sets of lectures he gave at University College, London, and at Trinity College, Cambridge. In contrast to his earlier work, Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature (1979), Rorty mostly abandons attempts to explain his theories in analytical terms and instead creates an alternate conceptual schema to that of the "Platonists" he rejects. In this schema "truth" (as the term is used conventionally) is considered unintelligible and meaningless.
The book is divided into three parts: "Contingency", "Ironism and Theory", and "Cruelty and Solidarity".