Przygodność, ironia i solidarność

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Published by Cambridge University Press in 1989, the book grew out of lectures Rorty gave in London and Cambridge. Part one argues that language, the self and liberal community are contingent – products of time and chance rather than of human nature or reason. Part two sketches the “liberal ironist”, who knows that her “final vocabulary”, the words with which she justifies her life, has no deeper foundation, yet holds with Judith Shklar that cruelty is the worst thing we do. Part three turns to novels: Nabokov and Orwell are read as writers who make us aware of cruelty. Solidarity, Rorty concludes, is not discovered by reflection but created by imaginatively identifying with the suffering of others.

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