Richard Rorty: A Short Introduction

Download or read book Richard Rorty: A Short Introduction written by Martin Müller and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-10-31 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essential offers a systematic guide to a fruitful reading of Rorty. At the same time, it provides a brief introduction to the main features of Richard Rorty's neopragmatism. The author proposes to read it as a fragile balance of pragmatism and romanticism by which Rorty seeks to change our self-image. Moreover, he elucidates this transformative ambition through a sketch of "continence, irony, and solidarity" and the utopian figure of the liberal ironist. The essential concludes with a reference to Rorty's hitherto unrecognized ethico-political motivation and with a methodological suggestion for further reading of his texts: One must apply the pragmatist method to himself.