The Irony of a Contingent Solidarity: Some Problems with Rorty  

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Visker, Rudi

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Ethical Perspectives: Journal of the European Ethics Network vol. 3 no. 2 (Jul. 1996), page 91-100.
Topik: Solidarity; Irony; Richard Rorty; Ethnocentrism; Levinas; Habermas
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According to Richard Rorty (whose book Contingency, Irony and Solidarity provided the source for the title of the present article), irony and solidarity are attitudes which work against rather than promote one another. From Rorty s perspective, irony is an inappropriate response to the discovery of our contingency. It prevents us from developing the ethnocentric attitude which Rorty advocates on the grounds that it allows for a sense of solidarity that is not in conflict with the ideal of negative freedom. As I will briefly indicate in the body of this article, the problem with this proposal is that it leaves out of consideration a different type of irony which, instead of requiring external ethnocentric correction, could help us in correcting some of the biases in Rorty s self-avowed ethnocentrism.

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