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 human condition is valuable on a private level, although it cannot advance the socia...
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 human condition is valuable on a private level, although it cannot advance the social or political goals of liberalism. In fact Rorty believes that it is literature not philosophy that can do this, by promoting a genuine sense of human solidarity. A truly liberal culture, acutely aware of its own historical contingency, would fuse the private, individual freedom of the ironic, philosophical perspective with the public project of human solidarity as it is engendered through the insights and sensibilities of great writers. The book has a characteristically wide range of reference from philosophy through social theory to literary criticism. It confirms Rorty's status as a uniquely subtle theorist, whose writing will prove absorbing to academic and nonacademic readers alike.
目录
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Preface
Introduction
Part I. Contingency:
1. The contingency of language
2. The contingency of selfhood
3. The contingency of a liberal community
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Preface
Introduction
Part I. Contingency:
1. The contingency of language
2. The contingency of selfhood
3. The contingency of a liberal community
Part II. Ironism and Theory:
4. Private irony and liberal hope
5. Self-creation and affiliation: Proust, Nietzsche, and Heidegger
6. From ironist theory to private allusions: Derrida
Part III. Cruelty and Solidarity:
7. The barber of Kasbeam: Nabokov on cruelty
8. The last intellectual in Europe: Orwell on cruelty
9. Solidarity
Index of names
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We are under no obligations other than the "we-intentions" of the communities with which we identify.
..... keep trying to expand our sense of "us " as far as we can.
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哲夫成城
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1 有用 会唱歌的耗子 2011-11-18 05:53:06
自由社会的两条法则：个人追求自我实现的自由；最大限度地降低对他人的残酷（diminish cruelty）。这两条法则是相辅相成的，由于一切都是contingency，没有所谓的“本质”或“核心”，生活就是追求一种新的可能，成为尼采或布鲁姆眼中的strong poet，亦即作者笔下的ironist。然而，过于沉迷个人的世界，可能会导致对他人的冷漠无情（黑格尔、尼采、海德格尔都为纳粹所用），因此需要... 自由社会的两条法则：个人追求自我实现的自由；最大限度地降低对他人的残酷（diminish cruelty）。这两条法则是相辅相成的，由于一切都是contingency，没有所谓的“本质”或“核心”，生活就是追求一种新的可能，成为尼采或布鲁姆眼中的strong poet，亦即作者笔下的ironist。然而，过于沉迷个人的世界，可能会导致对他人的冷漠无情（黑格尔、尼采、海德格尔都为纳粹所用），因此需要有意识地去关注他人的需要，尽可能减少社会残酷的一面。 (展开)
0 有用 ArturoBelano 2021-06-04 00:03:44
可以说不读不是人了
0 有用 VIelf 2011-04-26 08:05:20
We are under no obligations other than the "we-intentions" of the communities with which we identify. ..... keep trying to expand our sense of "us " as far as we can.
0 有用 嘶山 2022-11-13 10:56:39 美国
没日没夜地看完了 看rorty好似被点穴
0 有用 野田猫 2020-10-26 21:19:52
累.
0 有用 Vita Nova 2023-08-01 18:35:48 河北
通俗读物。
0 有用 嘶山 2022-11-13 10:56:39 美国
没日没夜地看完了 看rorty好似被点穴
0 有用 ArturoBelano 2021-06-04 00:03:44
可以说不读不是人了
0 有用 perrkk 2021-06-02 11:10:48
通俗易懂
0 有用 申不变 2021-04-14 16:44:51
这可能是大学三年来读过的最喜欢的哲学作品 (or is it?)。前四章恨不得把每句话都下划线：Rorty以一种清晰有力还有点aphoristic的语言讲出了我近半年读Putnam、Williams、Nietszche、Wittgenstein们产生的一些模模糊糊的想法。他对尼采的理解完全就是我很长一段日子里总和朋友提起的：尼采的哲学在私人领域里无与伦比，但在公共领域是致命的。So privati... 这可能是大学三年来读过的最喜欢的哲学作品 (or is it?)。前四章恨不得把每句话都下划线：Rorty以一种清晰有力还有点aphoristic的语言讲出了我近半年读Putnam、Williams、Nietszche、Wittgenstein们产生的一些模模糊糊的想法。他对尼采的理解完全就是我很长一段日子里总和朋友提起的：尼采的哲学在私人领域里无与伦比，但在公共领域是致命的。So privatise it, Rorty says. 对海德格尔、德里达、普鲁斯特、纳博科夫和奥威尔的论断也很有趣！总之看完仿佛有了种revelation... (展开)