Richard Rorty’s Elective Affinities.
The New Pragmatism amd Postmodern Thought
The was book published by Wydawnictwo Naukowe IF UAM
(Scientific Publishers of the Department of Philosophy of Poznan University,
Poland)
Poznan: WN IF UAM, 1996, pp. 302
© Copyright by Marek Kwiek
Department of Philosophy, Poznan University, Poznan, Poland, kwiekm@amu.edu.pl
Contents (PDF File)
Acknowledgements (PDF File)
i
Introduction (PDF File)
1
Chapter I (PDF File)
Philosophy of recontextualization, recontextualization of philosophy.
General remarks
27
Philosophical Excursus I (PDF File)
Seriousness, play, and fame (on Richard Rorty's Derrida)
46
Chapter II (PDF File)
Self-creation
70
Philosophical Excursus II (PDF File)
Richard Rorty and Lyotard, or about conversation and tragedy
86
Chapter III (PDF File)
Anti-Platonism of Richard Rorty's thought
112
Philosophical Excursus III (PDF File)
Hegel's presence in Richard Rorty
135
Chapter IV (PDF File)
Richard Rorty and literature, or about the priority of the "wisdom
of the novel" to the "wisdom of philosophy"
158
Philosophical Excursus IV (PDF File)
The picture of an ironist who is unwilling to be
a liberal, and of a liberal who is unwilling to be an ironist
(Foucault and Habermas)
180
Chapter V (PDF File)
Philosophy and politics, or about a romantic and a pragmatist
204
Philosophical Excursus V (PDF File)
Richard Rorty, Zygmunt Bauman, contingency, and solidarity
220
Bibliography (PDF File) 248