Rorty, Richard

Contingency, irony, and solidarity Richard Rorty - New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006, c1989 - xvi, 201 p. ; 24 cm.

pt. 1. Contingency: The contingency of language -- The contingency of selfhood -- The contingency of a liberal community -- pt. 2. Ironism and theory: Private irony and liberal hope -- Self-creation and affiliation: Proust, Nietzsche, and Heidegger -- From ironist theory to private allusions: Derrida -- pt. 3. Cruelty and solidarity: The barber of Kasbeam: Nabokov on cruelty -- The last intellectual in Europe: Orwell on cruelty -- Solidarity.

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