Marek Kwiek

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

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