Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity

偶然、反諷與團結

基本信息

Author：Richard Rorty

Format：Paperback | 220 pages

Dimensions：150 x 229 x 18mm | 340g

Publication date：24 Feb 1989

Publisher：CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Language: English

ISBN10：0521367816

ISBN13：9780521367813

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在這本1989年出版的書中，羅蒂認為，諸如尼采、弗洛伊德和維特根斯坦等思想家使社會能夠將自己視為歷史的偶發事件，而不是潛在的、非歷史的人性的表達，或超然歷史目標的實現。這種對人類狀況的諷刺觀點在私人層面上是有價值的，儘管它不能推進自由主義的社會或政治目標。事實上，羅蒂認為，通過促進真正意義上的人類團結，能夠做到這一點的不是哲學，而是文學。一個真正自由的文化，敏鋭地意識到它自身的歷史偶然性，會將諷刺的、哲學的私人的、個人的自由與人類團結的公共計劃相融合，因為它是通過偉大作家的洞察力和敏感性而產生的。這本書有一個典型的廣泛的參考範圍，從哲學，社會理論到文學批評。它證實了羅蒂作為一個獨特的精細理論家的地位，他的作品將被證明吸引學術和非學術的讀者。

In this 1989 book 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, ahistorical 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. A truly liberal culture, acutely aware of its own historical contingency, would fuse the private, individual freedom of the ironic, philosophical perspective with the public project of human solidarity as it is engendered through the insights and sensibilities of great writers. 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, whose writing will prove absorbing to academic and nonacademic readers alike.

目錄

Preface

Introduction

Part I. Contingency

1. The contingency of language

2. The contingency of selfhood

3. The contingency of a liberal community

Part II. Ironism and Theory

4. Private irony and liberal hope

5. Self-creation and affiliation: Proust, Nietzsche, and Heidegger

6. From ironist theory to private allusions: Derrida

Part III. Cruelty and Solidarity

7. The barber of Kasbeam: Nabokov on cruelty

8. The last intellectual in Europe: Orwell on cruelty

9. Solidarity

Index of names.

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