Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity

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Richard 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, a historical 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. ... 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 ..."