Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity John Gowdy "Writing under the now-famous pen

"Writing under the now-famous pen name Genêt

Levitt and Dubner see the world like no one else

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Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity John Gowdy "Writing under the now-famous penIn this book, major American philosopher 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, ahistorical human nature, or as realizations of suprahistorical goals. This ironic perspective on the human condition is valuable but it cannot advance liberalism's social and political goals. In fact, Rorty believes that it